Here is something i found out on my server. I have a similar issue that might be the same as yours. I have a main.html page with a php script inside the file using the include statement. The html file doesnt display anything from the php, but if i copy the entire html file and name the file ending in php it works great. Here is the contents of the main.html file: <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> <meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style> p { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px } body { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal } </style> </head> <body> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: Impact, sans-serif; color: #c10026"><font size="7">This is the Future Home Page of our web site.</font></span></p> <br> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: #008080"><font size="6">This site is currently under construction.</font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #008080"><span style="font-size: 16pt"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif">Please use the back button of your browser to exit this site.</span></span></span></p> <br> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif"><font size="5">Thank you for your patience and hope to see you soon.</font></span></p> <br> <font face="helvetica,verdana,arial" size="-2"><p align="center"> <img src="Construction.gif"> </font> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> <font face="helvetica,verdana,arial" size="-2">This site is being hosted by <a href="http://www.ourwebsite.com" target="_blank">ourwebsite</a>, a Division of ourcompany, Inc.</font></p> </body> </html> <?PHP include ("counter.php"); ?> If this same file is called main.php teh script runs, but not if it ends in .html hope this helps some. If at first you dont succeed your a programmer.