## SetHandler

Syntax: SetHandler handler-name
Context: directory, .htaccess
Status: Base
Module: mod_mime
Compatibility: SetHandler is only available in Apache 1.1 and later.

When placed into an `.htaccess` file or a `<Directory>` or `<Location>` section, this directive forces all matching files to be parsed through the handler given by handler-name. For example, if you had a directory you wanted to be parsed entirely as imagemap rule files, regardless of extension, you might put the following into an `.htaccess` file in that directory:

        SetHandler imap-file

Another example: if you wanted to have the server display a status report whenever a URL of `http://servername/status` was called, you might put the following into access.conf:

        <Location /status>
        SetHandler server-status
        </Location>