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phoebus
Asked: 2009-09-27 22:23:40 +0800 CST

PHP not being parsed in apache2, php module is installed and enabled

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EDIT: I decided to just wipe out my apache and php installs and start from scratch. Things are working now, no idea why they weren't before. I've probably set up 30 different LAMP-type servers and never run into this before, I guess I'll just chalk this one up to insanity.

Original question is as follows:

Greetings,

PHP files are not being properly executed on my webserver. I have a test file as follows:

<html>

<head>
<title>Testing PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo( );
?>
</body>
</html>

Here are my installed PHP and apache packages:

$ dpkg -l | grep php   
ii  libapache2-mod-php5         5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php-config                  1.10.11-1  
ii  php-pear                    5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php5                        5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php5-cgi                    5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php5-cli                    5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php5-common                 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  
ii  php5-mysql                  5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2  

$ dpkg -l | grep apache  
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork         2.2.11-2ubuntu2.3  
ii  apache2-utils               2.2.11-2ubuntu2.3  
ii  apache2.2-common            2.2.11-2ubuntu2.3  
ii  libapache2-mod-auth-mysql   4.3.9-11  
ii  libapache2-mod-php5         5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2

Here are my php-related config lines:

$ grep -n php /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.* /etc/apache2/httpd.conf  
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf:1: <IfModule mod_php5.c>  
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf:2: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3  
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf:3: AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps  
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load:1: LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

As you can see, the php5 module is loaded. I can confirm this as a2enmod indicates it is already loaded.

Currently, attempting to load a PHP file in a browser simply displays it as raw text.

Curiously, while trying to fix it, I found that if I add a line like "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3" to the bottom of httpd.conf, then it suddenly starts asking me to download those php files instead. That's weird, considering that such a line is the same as in the php5.conf module file.

Obviously, neither is desired behavior.

Also, yes, apache2 and now even the server itself have been restarted numerous times. Apache has no trouble serving regular HTML pages.

Any ideas?

linux

3 Answers

  1. When I do the same grep of my config files, I get one line you didn't:

    /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf:3:          DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm

    Make sure this line in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini is set this way:

    ; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under Apache.
    engine = On

    If you change it, restart Apache:

    sudo apache2ctl restart
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  2. what is the short_open_tag option set to in your php.ini file? I often missed to turn that on - so I know how you might feel. Some package maintainers set this option to "0" false. Refer to http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php

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  3. This command alone may have helped:

    sudo apache2ctl restart

    I was in a similar situation and it did for me.

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