AddHandler .htaccess on GoDaddy stopped working today

Question

I have the following code in my GoDaddy .htaccess file:

AddHandler fcgid-script .do
FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php .do
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .do

This means that whenever we go to a ".do" file in the web browser, it runs as PHP. All of a sudden, after three years of working with no problem, it has stopped working correctly! Now, if I go to a .do file, the browser just downloads the file.

I think that GoDaddy have done a server upgrade, but I can't work out how to solve the problem.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance....

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue. We were able to fix it by replacing the module name to the Apache V 2.4 standard.

In your case, you would need to do:

AddHandler fcgid-script .do
FcgidWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php .do
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .do

We referred the official Apache documentation here. There might be more choices for your context.

Answer 2

GoDaddy upgraded EasyApache (from version 3 to version 4) last night.

You should drop the FcgidWrapper and the AddType directives from your .htaccess, and modify AddHandler to:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-lsphp .do

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