NYCPHP Meetup

[Aaron Fischer]

Greetings,

I'm starting to work on a project for a new client and am in the 
process of familiarizing myself with their site.  They are being hosted 
by verio.net with PHP and MySQL support.  I ran a php_info script and 
to my surprise got nothing back.  After a few emails back and forth 
with their support team, I found out that in order for php to be 
executed the file extension needs to be .php, .xml, or .shtml.  I am 
used to a server environment where I can have pages ending with .html 
and the php code is still executed just fine.

So, my question is, is this fairly normal to be constrained to those 
file types in order to have php be executed?  It seems inconvenient and 
unnecessary, IMO, but I don't have enough experience with different 
server environments to feel qualified to make this judgment.

Overall, I feel like my client could be getting the same services they 
are paying for now for a much cheaper price from alternative hosts.

Any feedback is quite welcome.

TIA,

-Aaron