Same old thing--I see PHP source, not the PHP page

pauleckert

Howdy, all:

When I point my browser to a .php file like hello.php (shown at end of message), I either get the source code displaying in my browser, or I get a download box.

Yes, I've read all the FAQs and the helpful hints from everyone.
No, they didn't do any good.

I did restart my browser (many times).

I'm running Apache/2.0.47, PHP ver 3.3 on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 system.

Here's the salient lines from my httpd.conf:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.html.var
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
LimitRequestBody 524288
</Files>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Yes, there is a module called libphp4.so in my /usr/local/apache2/modules directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3553050 Jan 19 19:46 libphp4.so

Yes, PHP runs fine when I run it from the command line. I have a file called hello.php which has the following lines in it:
<html>
<body>
<?php echo "Hello, World!"; ?>
</body>
</html>

When I run it by typing: php /var/www/html/hello.php, it prints the following:
<html>
<body>
Hello, World!</body>
</html>

php.ini has whatever the default configuration is, except I set register_globals = On.

Please, please please. Tell me what I'm doing wrong????

Moonglobe

well if you're running PHP as a module it's best to just use --with-apxs=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs from PHP's ./configure. i've had no problems with that before.

pauleckert

Hmm.
Your message made me re-think the whole compile process. It was such a pain when I first did it that I thought that I'd re-do it now that I'm older and wiser (maybe!).

I ran a nice clean configure, specifying everything that mattered:

./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-3.23.53a-pc-linux-gnu-i686 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
make
make install

Everything worked great.

Stopped and restarted apache.

Stopped and restarted mysql.

Rebooted the machine.

Still fails. The browser pops up a 'Download' or 'Open' window.
If I choose open, I get a blank screen, but view source shows the PHP source in it.

Any other ideas?

jiayi

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.html.var

change to

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var

it sounds silly.,.bt who knows?

remember to restart ur server

pauleckert

I think that the list of entries for DirectoryIndex is just the order that Apache searches for files.

Just to try everything, I rearranged the order.

No change.

Also, the DirectoryIndex just controls what file Apache serves up when someone surfs to a directory without explicitly mentioning a file to load.

I think the problem is deeper than that.

jiayi

hi,

it seems that your installation of php module is not complete.
did u copy the php.ini-dist to /www/php/php.ini after finsihing the command 'make install'?

pauleckert

Hi:
Yes, I did copy the distro ini to php.ini. The only change I made to the distro was changing register_globals = Off to register_globals = On.

pauleckert

Despite lots of helpful suggestions, nothing worked.
I was running both perl and php and thought nothing about having the following lines in my httpd.conf file:

Original entries:
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

I tried various things to no avail until I reversed the entries in the httpd.conf file:

New entries:
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

Whoa! Now both perl and php worked correctly!!!!!!

I hope this helps someone else.

Emily1981

I'm having the same problem but with Windows: only see source and not outcome of code!

phpinfo test page runs fine and I too enabled the same variables!

Have trawled through site for direction, this problem is most comparable with my own!

Any help?😃

pauleckert

Hi, Emily1981:
You say your phpinfo() page shows up normally?

If so, then PHP is working and is handling your PHP scripts. When you run the 'hello, world' php script above, do you get the php source in your browser window?

That would be really weird if phpinfo() worked, but not 'echo' (which is the only php statement in the little example above).

Try it again, and if it still doesn't work, post the following:
(a) any lines from your apache.conf file with 'php' in them;
(b) the phpinfo() script part that has your compile options in it.

Paul

Emily1981

My OS is ME, I'm using Apache 2.0 and php4 mysql is the database.

I downloaded the php zip from a mirror site and introduced the following modules to the ini file and config file
In httpd Config

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php/php.exe"
ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2"

In PHP.ini

doc_root = "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs"
extension_dir = "C:\php\php"

php dlls are located in c:\php\php\

I can post the php.ini file with specifics if necessary as not operating off this puter.

Yes it works from localhost/phpinfo.php
but not from the example

<html>
<head>
<title> Today's date </title>
</head>

<body>
<p> Today's date (according to this web server) is

<?php
echo (date("1,F dS Y."));
?>

</body>
</html>
which is like you say the echo thing!

Emily1981

Really up against the clock with this-any help greatly appreciated!!

No actions allocated to php files in the registry is that normal? What should be there?

pauleckert

Well, I'm back.
Sorry to hear you are up against the clock.

I'm not a Windoze person, but I like the howto located here: http://www.atrig.com/HOWTO-MiniWebSite.html.

Hope it helps.

midtoad

that HOW-TO seems to be 404...