My PHP code is displayed, not executed

Anon

Hi!

My problem: I have a simple html form, and when I click the submit button which should execute a php file, instead the browser displays the php code in the browser window. At first I was getting the "POST method not allowed" error, but I've resolved that. Any suggestions?

I'm using RH Linux 7.2, Apache 1.3.22, and PHP 4.0.6.

Thanks!
Mack

yendor

Sounds like a server configuration problem to me. Your php script is not being parsed by your server, rather it is being passed to the browser as a plain text file. Have you tested your server? Do any scripts run correctly?

Anon

Thanks for the reply. Well, php scripts ran correctly before I upgraded from Apache 1.3.19 to 1.3.22 and to PHP 4.0.6. Is there anything in the php.ini that I should change? I've already added the AddType lines to httpd.conf. I even tried one of the suggestions I saw on the forum, which was to drop the php files into cgi-bin. I did this because I think I understand that all files in the ScriptAlias folder (cgi-bin) are treated as executable scripts, regardless of file type (is this right?). Anyway, I'm still stumped. Any more suggestions?

Thanks!
Mack

yendor

Wish I could help you some more, but I'm still running Apache 1.3.19 and PHP 4.0.4 with FreeBSD as my OS. I also have a box running RedHat 7.1, but I'm running Apache 1.3.19 and PHP 4.0.4 on that one too. The problem with your problem is that it could be a lot of things. I'm still convinced there is some problem with you PHP/Apache configuration especially because it doesn't execute the scripts even if they are in your cgi-bin. The only thing I have left to suggest is to double check your http.conf and php.ini, and look at PHP.net and Apache.org respectively for configuration help. Sorry I couldn't help more.

Anon

Thats ok...I really appreciate your effort though!

Take it easy,
Mack

Anon

Dude! I figured it out!

My php file was using the "<%...%>" ASP tags, and the php.ini file was by default not allowing the ASP-style tags to be processed...only the PHP tags of "<?...?>" were enabled. So, after enabling the <%...%> tags, the php code started executing.

Also of note...

Once I got the php code working, my next problem was that the mail() function wasn't working with sendmail. Solution: by default, the php.ini file was not looking for sendmail, so I rem'd out the sendmail_path line, added the correct info, and now the mail() function works!

Anyhow, thanks for the help!

mack

yendor

Glad to see you figured it out! That makes sense, your server didn't recognize the <%..%> as the begining and end of your PHP code, so it was sending it as plain text to your browser. Wrong file extensions can cause the same thing. I turned XbitHack on on my server so I can choose what extensions my server will execute as PHP. ie .html .asp etc. That way I can disguise my php as something else. He He.