Question

Is there any problem with running HTML as PHP via .htaccess? such as security or best practices etc. was doing this to make URLs cleaner.

## run the following file types as php
Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .html .htm .rss .xml

Well ideally id like to have my URLs like

localhost/blog/posts/view.php?id=64 

to be

localhost/projects/bittyPHP/bittyphp/posts/view/id-64 

But having trouble accomplishing that without routing everything to one file and having PHP run determine the paths. I guess this is my real question

Answer 1

I would use mod rewrite.

Probably you do not need to run all html files as PHP, and if you have short_tags enabled “<?” in XML will give you trouble.