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Rorschach
Rorschach

Reputation: 3812

PHP files not executing inside include statements

I have an extraordinarily simple website:

index.html contains:

<html>
<body>

<h1>Welcome to my home page!</h1>
<p>Some text.</p>
<p>Some more text.</p>
<?php include 'footer.php';?>

</body>
</html>

It is in /usr/share/nginx/html

footer.php is in the same directory and is:

<?php
echo "<p>printed!!</p>";
?>

When I go to http://MY_IP_address/footer.php I get the proper output of just a blank page with "printed!!" at the top left.

When I go to http://MY_IP_address/ I get: " Welcome to my home page!

Some text.

Some more text. "

But I do not get "printed!!" written anywhere.

I am assuming that somewhere I missed something in my config files, but I can't figure out what it is.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 347

Answers (2)

Panda
Panda

Reputation: 6896

The file which contained include() is a file with .html extension, thus it's not interpreted by Apache. Thus, the code in index.html was not included. (Credits to @RiggsFolly for the improved explanation)

Unless your server is set to parse .html files as PHP, it will not be included.

Thus you'll need to rename it to index.php.

The include() function in PHP includes code from other PHP files and copies them into the file that uses the include statement.

Source:

Upvotes: 3

Vishnu Sharma
Vishnu Sharma

Reputation: 642

Php tags(<?php ?>) can only be parsed when file extension is php. So, Change file name from index.html to index.php

Upvotes: 1

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