apache error when trying to open php file

raulmtz

does anybody know why do i get this error when trying to open a php file on the apache server

Premature end of script headers: c:/php/php.exe

thanks in advance

hulkhogan

I'm having the same problem, and it's annoying the heck out of me, DUDE! I keep getting this "500 Internal Server Error" in the browser and "Premature end to header scripts" error in the error log. I don't have much in my code except this at the beginning:

 <? print("Content-type: text/html\n\n"); ?>

I have PHP 4.3 on a UNIX/FreeBSD using Apache2. I've installed Apache2, then PHP4. Since mine's on a UNIX system, I couldn't find much info other than for Windows systems through this site's Search.

If I run this script from the command-line, ie. "php test.php", it does not display any errors and executes the rest of the script as expected.

The php file is in a world-readable/executable directory. The file itself has been chmod'ed with execute permissions (755).

I've added these lines in Apache's httpd.conf file, according to the book "Essential PHP for:Web Professionals" by Christopher Cosentino:
ScriptAlias /php/ "/usr/www/php" # my php sandbox
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/usr/local/bin/php"

I've stopped and restarted the Apache server numerous times.

Anyone has ideas?

Moonglobe

umm.... you shouldn't be using print to send headers in php, that what [man]header/man is for. also, you dont need to specify the content type, PHP automatically sends text/html as the default.

hulkhogan

Understood the header part. I used that print method because I thought php wasn't explicitly sending the content header.

Anyway it works now: simply by not including the ".php" extension in the URL address. ie. "http://www.blah.com/php/test" instead of "http://www.blah.com/php/test.php"