.htaccess file

[mysty]

My hosting company's tech support told me that I could upgrade from PHP 4.4.4 to PHP 5.2.0 on their server, but I had to do one of the following:
1) rename all my files from *.php to *.php5
or
2) Create a .htaccess file and place the following line AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in it.

Since I don't want to rename all my file extensions, I would like to try option (2), but I am not sure what that means.  I tried to make a file named ".htaccess" and I tried one named "something.htaccess" and I tried ".htaccess.php" but none seemed to work.  What am I missing?

[emehrkay]

one and one?

this is what i had to do

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

locally i saved it as _.htaccess then when i uploaded it, i canged the name to .htaccess

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Windows cannot create or rename a file that starts with a dot, but you can edit an existing file by that name. Either find an existing .htaccess file and edit it with your desired contents, or you can create a file with some other name/extension and use PHP to rename the file -
[code]<?php
$source = "htaccess.txt";
$dest = ".htaccess";

rename( $source, $dest) or die("could not rename");

?>[/code]

[mysty]

Yes, one and one.
I found my problem.  Notepad was renaming the file to .htaccess.txt.  Once I saved it as .htaccess.txt, I just renamed it and all is well.