problem parsing html as php with .htaccess

[jdubs11]

(01-14-2009 09:18 PM)HarryPW Wrote:  No errors today in the Apache log concerning php or htaccess (only about ispCP and Horde)

This is the .htaccess file I want to use
RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
ErrorDocument 404 /error404.html

I also changed
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
into
AddHandler php-fastcgi .html

still didn't work.
It looks like a .htaccess file can't be used in the domainroot.

WR
Harry

Is there a resolution to this? The company that I lease my server from just recently upgraded to ispCP and now I cannot render any .html files as PHP. They indicated that a change would need to be made to php.ini since the .htaccess method I had been using would no longer work since PHP was no longer being run as a module. When asked what needed to be updated in php.ini, they responded w/ an 'I don't know, try adding AddHandler php-fastcgi .html to .htaccess'. This did not work for me either. Please help.