[Maxter]

Hello,

I want to start a small free hosting site, with ads. I've tried almost 4 hours to make the ads work through mod_layout or mod_rewrite. There were a few threads about this, but they couldn't help me enough.

With mod_rewrite I made the footer, but it didn't work with PHP files. Only with HTML. Here's the code I used:

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /footer.php

footer.php

<?
$filename=$DOCUMENT_ROOT.$REQUEST_URI;
$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
$contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($handle);
echo $contents;
echo "<DIV ALIGN='CENTER'><IMG SRC=http://www.maxterhost.com/templates/rk_business/images/rkbusiness_r1_c1.jpg></DIV>";
?>

I tried to change RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /footer.php to RewriteRule ^(.*)\.*$ /footer.php so I can make it work with all files, but I got always Error 500 - Internal Server Error.

How can I make this work with PHP and HTML files? And how can I make it appear at the top of the page?

Any help would be appreciated.

Please note that I have a reseller account. mod_layout and mod_rewrite are installed.

Thank you.

[hph]

try this for php in a .htaccess

f you are using php (ie., php extensions or html is configured to be parse by php) you could use the following in an htaccess.

php_value auto_prepend_file "/path/to/header.php";
php_value auto_append_file "/path/to/footer.php";

That will put those files at the top and bottom of each php file or any file configured to be parsed by php.