extensionless php file

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I’m having trouble getting the ForceType to function when trying to use a extensionless file name.

I have a vm development box, os details at bottom of post (centos 6.4, httpd 2.2.15, php 5.5.3)

I have the following in my VirtualServer’s public_html

#ls -al no-extension-test -rw-r--r-- 1 phptesting phptesting 27 Aug 19 01:55 no-extension-test

Its contents are :

<?php

echo “a simple test”;

?>

Then in my .htaccess I have :

RewriteEngine On

<Files “no-extension-test”>
#1
#ForceType application/x-httpd-php

#2
#ForceType fcgid-script

#3
#SetHandler fcgid-script

#4
#ForceType application/x-httpd-php

When I use #1 or #4, I get a blank page but if I view source then I get the source code for the no-extension-test file

When I use #2 or #3, I get a Internal Server Error with the following in the logs

[Mon Aug 19 02:07:23 2013] [warn] [client x.x.x.x] (104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
[Mon Aug 19 02:07:23 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Premature end of script headers: no-extension-test

I have another page, phpinfo.php (it works find)

Anyone have any suggestions ?

Any pointers on what to try next?

#-- Info

cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

uname -a

Linux devbox.nunya.lan 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 16 23:51:20 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

php -v

PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 12 2013 20:35:47) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.2.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2013, by Derick Rethans

httpd -V

Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) Server built: May 17 2013 13:42:07 Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:25 Server loaded: APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9 Compiled using: APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9 Architecture: 64-bit Server MPM: Prefork threaded: no forked: yes (variable process count) Server compiled with.... -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork" -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE -D APR_HAS_MMAP -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled) -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd" -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec" -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="run/httpd.pid" -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status" -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log" -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
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I don’t think the directives you tried can work this way…

According to the Apache documentation, “ForceType” is for static content only:

“This directive primarily overrides the content types generated for static files served out of the filesystem. For resources other than static files, where the generator of the response typically specifies a Content-Type, this directive has no effect.”

And the SetHandler you can’t have files be processed as an “fcgid-script”, that only applies to “.fcgi” files. When you use the FCGID method, the “FCGIWrapper” directives in your virtual hosts are responsible for telling Apache what files to run as FCGI:

AddHandler fcgid-script .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 FCGIWrapper /home/DOMAIN.TLD/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php FCGIWrapper /home/DOMAIN.TLD/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php5

You could try adding an “FCGIWrapper” directive and leave the “.php” extension out.

Question is though: why would you need to call extensionless files as PHP scripts?

3

Thanks for the reply, I’ll try to explain where this comes from.

The use of ForceType is rather old, I’d say maybe 10 years… since I’ve been using this on a live site for about that long. There might have been something else but I can’t remember and I don’t have revisions on the .htaccess going back that far.

Basically, it was a way to make friendly urls. It working on httpd version 2.2.3 however the new server is running 2.2.15 and it doesn’t work now.

I just check the live hosting server and it’s httpd version is 2.2.24 which tosses out the version difference as a culpruit.

Here is what my live .htaccess code.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.$ index.php [NC,L]

ForceType application/x-httpd-php In the root directory there would be a file with out an extension, named "content_images".

It would contain either full php code or just a simple include statement.

<?php include('content_images.php'); ?>

This would allow for friendly url’s to be written like, www.example.com\content_images\section1\year\month\day\articlefile1.jpg

The php would parse this url and and either generate the image or load the cached image.

Its not the only use but a good example of why it was used.

Weird that its not working though…