how do I set up PHP, do I have to do that?

[arturoca]

hello, I joined today;
I'm not new with PHP or MYSQL, but this the first time that I have a web hosting.
I meant, I have configured a local server in my computer with PHP5 and apache, but I'm new in "real" web hosting. Anyway, when I upload my first index.html with the text

<p> hello </p>

it renders "hello" in my navigator as expected, no problem with that.
but when I put

<p> hello </p>
<?php
echo "I'm a php script";
?>

it just renders the "hello" in the <p> tags. As if PHP were not installed;
SO I guess I have to configure something?

thanks in advance, have a super day.

 

[descalzo]

The file has to have .php as an extension for it to be parsed as PHP

Not sure if there is a way you can use .htaccess to force the server to parse .html extension files as PHP.

 

[arturoca]

thank you, I swear I've always put *.html and in worked
x) anyway, I will close this thread if I find how. lol

 

[Mr. DOS]

Your local webserver was probably configured to parse .htm and .html files with PHP as well as .php files; most "production" servers don't do this for performance reasons: assuming .htm and .html files are purely static or at least, only have SSI's, saves a lot of CPU cycles.

--- Mr. DOS

 

[ah-blabla]

Not sure if there is a way you can use .htaccess to force the server to parse .html extension files as PHP.

Unfortunately you can't on this server - you can however use SSI in html, which can also be used to run php scripts.