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Peter Nunn
Asked: 2010-05-12 20:53:19 +0800 CST

apache not displaying php pages, offering them for download instead

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we are trying to setup apache (apache 2 in this case, although apache does the same thing) and html pages display just fine, however, any php pages linked into buttons on the front page are offered for download rather than being displayed.

Any ideas what we have missed? Its proving difficult to search on this in google as the terms are so heavily used elsewhere.

I know this is a bit general, but we have tried adding types to the to the apache.conf (or httpd.conf for apache1) are having no joy at all.

Thanks.

Peter.

apache-2.2 php5

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You're missing a PHP script handler.

    The configuration lines in Apache2 that you're missing look something like this:

    # Use for PHP 5.x:
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
AddHandler php5-script php 

# Add index.php to your DirectoryIndex line:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

    With something like Apache on Linux, it's typically installed when you include the PHP packages into your distribution.

    What OS are you running this on?

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  2. You could also try this 

    a2enmod php5

    then restart apache2 with

    rcapache2 graceful

    on a suse style linux

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  3. I was looking on this question for a while finding a lot of Linux answers and not too many Windows answers.

    Here was the solution for me:

    If you already put the AddType application/x-httpd-php .php into the httpd.conf file for Apache, then you do not need it in your .htaccess file on your webpage. I found deleting it from my .htaccess made php render.

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