title: Enable PHP short tags using .htaccess
body: <p>I have Apache set up on my own Centos server with several virtual web servers, and I wish to enable PHP short tags for only one of those web servers which is located at <code>/var/www/ostickets/html</code>.  I can successfully enable short tags by adding <code>short_open_tag=On</code> to php.ini, however, I don't wish to globally do so, but only the one site.  I've tried the following, however, nothing is displayed.  I've looked at various logs, and cannot detect any errors.  Is it possible that I inadvertently disabled the ability to do so and if so how do I allow it (reference "<em>If you don't have access to the php.ini you can try to enable them trough the .htaccess file but it's possible the hosting company disabled this if you are on shared hosting:</em>").</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@vps html]# pwd
  /var/www/ostickets/html
  [root@vps html]# ls -la .hta*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Oct  1 07:38 .htaccess
  [root@vps html]# cat .htaccess
  # php_flag short_open_tag on
  
  php_value short_open_tag 1
  
  
  
  [root@vps html]# cat test.php
  &lt;? echo('Hello World');?&gt;
  [root@vps html]#
  </code></pre>