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Asked: 2026-06-11T18:32:48+00:00

I’ve set up a virtual host for my local machine. This is what I

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I’ve set up a virtual host for my local machine.

This is what I have in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1   localhost local.dev
127.0.1.1   tomica-ubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

This is configuration for that virtual host in my /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/dev"
    ServerName local.dev
</VirtualHost>

In my /opt/lampp/htdocs/dev/index.html I have this:

<html>
<body>
    <p>HTML</p>
    <?php echo 'PHP' ?>
</body>
</html>

But when I open http://local.dev in my browser, I only see:

HTML

However, if I open the document source, I can see:

<html>
<body>
    <p>HTML</p>
    <?php echo 'PHP' ?>
</body>
</html>

And if I inspect the page’s DOM, there’s:

<html>
<body>
    <p>HTML</p>
    <!--<?php echo 'PHP' ?>-->
</body>
</html>

Also, if I rename /opt/lampp/htdocs/dev/index.html to /opt/lampp/htdocs/dev/index.php everything seems to be alright.

Why is my PHP code not parsing in the .html document?

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  1. Editorial Team

    By default mod_php does not tell Apache to let it handle documents with the .html extension. If you change the handler type using the AddHandler directive:

    AddHandler php-script .html

    then Apache will know that you want to let PHP process the contents of files with a html extension.

    The reason this is not enabled by default is because running a document through the PHP interpreter costs (in CPU, in memory usage, in end-user time). There is no point in wasting time – so in mod_php’s default setup HTML files (which normally are static affairs) are not passed through the PHP interpreter.

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