php / apache issue

parsing .htm as PHP, 404's returning 500's

[brotherhood of LAN]

No access to http.conf, so in a .htaccess file I set PHP to parse HTML files, files ending in .htm

Apache is set to include missing.html for any 404 pages, though it seems to be returning 500 errors for .htm pages.

site.com/notapage.html returns 404
site.com/notapage.php returns 404
site.com/notapage.htm returns 500

The westhost tech says that it's due to the fact PHP is directed to parse .htm files in .htaccess. How would I prevent a .htm file extension from returning a 500 status?

[brotherhood of LAN]

Well, it appears to be a specific problem to westhost 1.0, if anyone else has this problem, it's not your sloppy code ;)

[jatar_k]

reassuring I guess ;)