HELP-Apache tries to DL all php files

danswebs

I have recently installed Linux 7.1, Apache 1.3.22, and PHP 4.1.1 on an intel box. While installing everything went smoothly. I started apache, and all of the html files are displayed as they are supposed to be, but when I try to load any php file the server immediately tries to start a download. The message I get is:
"Save As... (type application/x-httpd-php)".

I have made the httpd.conf file recognize .php and .phtml files as application/x-httpd-php. I have even tried application/x-httpd-php4 for the AddType. Heck, I tried to get .html files to be recognized as php files and even they tried to download.

I have removed all of the apache and php files and reinstalled them. I have rebooted, reloaded, and restarted more times than I can count. I have even followed four diffenent sets of instructions to do the installs (they aere all pretty much the same...).

Does anyone have a clue what could be going wrong with my stupid computer?
~Dan

Anon

I faced exactly the same problem as you did. Till now, I haven't had any solution for this. If you find one, kindly let me know. Thanks in advance.

Anon

did you set apache up to load up the module? did you setup php correctly?

Anon

I managed to get rid of the error today. I re-compiled PHP with '-EAPI' and also I found out that the libphp4.so is not exist in the modules folder after I compiled PHP. So, I just move the file to modules folder as the path to load the module specified in httpd.conf is 'modules'. That's all I did. Thanks !

danswebs

I don't know about the "-EAPI" thing. Perhaps you could go into further detail about it.
I did however get the server to start processing the php code. I had to find and cp the libphp4.so file into libexec/libphp4.so
then I had to add the following lines to my httpd.conf file:
LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
AddModule mod_php4.c

Once I did that, it started working.

Anon

yeah that was your main prob... not putting stuff in your config =)

Anon

Hi,
I am having the same type of problem. I have reinstalled PHP and apache serveral times under Windows ME and have not been able to get IE 6.0 to show any .php files. Unfortunately, I only have a short time to get this working. I have spent 11.5 hours loading and reseaching possible causes of error or configurations problems. I am able to run php.exe without any errors from the command line. If I attempt to load anything from my apache group/apache/htdocs directory with .html extention it works fine but anything with .php does not. If I attempt from the index to open test.php nothing happends. If I open it directly, It asks me if I want to download xxx.php. if I say yes it downloads it but does not open the page. Does anyone know what is wrong. Can I call anyone for support? and is there a site where the download and installers work for windows?.