I think this is a setup problem?

Anon

I'm running php on apache on linux. ... I had the server guys install it and have tested some scripts ok with a telnet prompt, but they will not parse from a web browser... help?

TIA
Richard

techmeister

What does the browser do? Prompt to download the php file??

Russ

Anon

Russ,

There are two things the browser does:

case 1: The first line of the file is
result : html displayed normally, but php not parsed.

case 2: The first line of the file is <?php
result 2: the php sourse is displayed as plain text.

I am starting to think that the apache server is not configured to recognize php as a mime type...

Thanks for any thoughts you have.

Richard

techmeister

Sound like a line in your httpd.cong file needs changing (Ask your ISP to do this🙂

This is what the relevant section of my (Apache web-server) .conf file looks like - it shouldn't bee too different (Although don't quote me on that!)

AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to

make certain files to be certain types.

For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of the Apache distribution - see

http://www.php.net) will typically use:

#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
#AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
#

And for PHP 4.x, use:

#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

//These lines are what's important, they
//need to be uncommented (Lose the '#'
//before them)

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

Good luck!
Russ

techmeister

Sorry, that should be 'httpd.conf' (.cong indeed....)

Russ

Anon

Russ,

Thanks for all the help. I checked out the http.conf file and could not find the mime types ... so I checked the mods as well and found that php.mod (and 3 and 4) were not active (I have some amount of control over the apache box via webmin, a web based admin prog.). The weird thing is that they would not stay active after being set and restarting the web server. I relayed this to the ISP and they're going to try rebuilding php and apache to see if that helps.

Thanks again
Richard

techmeister

No problem Richard!

Good luck with it.
Russ