How to configure apache for php

richie

I've been installing php+apache for many years, and the way to let apache process .php extensions as php is to add the line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

to httpd.conf

Now I just installed PHP Version 5.0.4, along with apache 2.0.54.

I looked at httpd.conf, but I couldn't find

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

in it, even though .php files are being processed correctly as php scripts.

How is this possible?

I went ahead and added

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .xv

and restarted apache.

Unfortunately, .xv is not recognised as php.

What am I missing?

bradgrafelman

How is PHP being run? Sounds like as a CGI executable rather than a module.

thorpe

This could also just depend on how things are setup. For instance, in my httpd.conf file I include any modules by placing them in a directory, then calling them with...

Include /etc/apache2/modules.d/*.conf

Then, I have the file /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf...

# vim: ft=apache sw=4 ts=4
<IfDefine PHP5>
        # Load the module first
        <IfModule !sapi_apache2.c>
                LoadModule php5_module    modules/libphp5.so
        </IfModule>
        # Set it to handle the files
        <IfModule mod_mime.c>
                AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
                AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
        </IfModule>
    AddDirectoryIndex index.php
</IfDefine

This is how its done in Gentoo. Why? I really have no idea, but it does make it pretty easy to see what modules are installed at a glance.

ls /etc/apache2/modules.d

Of course, its just as easy to run...

cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf | grep Modules

So yeah.... I have no idea.

richie

bradgrafelman, I installed everything from fedora core 4. I'd be surprised if fedore installs php as cgi

thorpe, your comment inspired me to go looking, and I found
Include conf.d/*.conf
in httpd.conf

Sure enough, /etc/httpd/conf.d contains a bunch of .conf files, among which is php.conf.

php.conf has the line I was looking for:

AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

Thanks for your help everybody.

Now I need to figure out why php won't talk to mysql.