PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

If you receive such error in the error logs or in the browser please follow the steps below.

For non suexec/suphp servers

Create a htaccess file under the diretcory and add the code below

php_flag short_open_tag X

For suexec/suphp servers

Copy the server’s php.ini file under the diretcory and find for short_open_tag. Open the php.ini file and change it to

short_open_tag = X

Note :: The solution is valid only if you find the error due to line in your php/html file.
HTML Code:

xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″
OR
xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″

how to disable htaccess for domain account

You can disable .htaccess for a particular domain by editing the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file & following the below mentioned steps:

Open the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.
Search for the “AllowOverride None” string.

directory “/”
AllowOverride None
Directory

Append it by:

directory “/home/username/public_html”
AllowOverride None
Directory

Such that it looks like:

directory “/"
AllowOverride None
Directory

directory “/home/username/public_html”
AllowOverride None
Directory

Restart the httpd/apache service on the server

This would disable the .htaccess for that particular account/domain.