title: How to enable the directive "short_open_tag" via the. Htaccess Apache [PHP 5.3]
body: <p>I am currently using PHP 5.3.8 and I can not access it with <code>php.ini</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I absolutely must enable the PHP directive "short_open_tag" to On it because I work with a great CMS that uses only the <code>&lt;? ?&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to enable it with my Apache .htaccess (<code>php_value short_open_tag 1</code>), but adding this causes Apache to always issue 500 errors.</p>
  
  <p>N.B. My server works with PHP in CGI mode.</p>