Browser tries to download PHP pages

Anon

I am running Slackware Linux 8.0 that comes with PHP already installed in Apache. All of the PHP files seem to be in the appropriate areas and the httpd.conf file is set for PHP extensions. However, when I try to view a PHP page the browser tries to download it as a file instead of rendering it in the browser? I am going nuts trying to figure this out. Am I missing something simple?

Anon

Dunno apatche at all, but it must have a setting in httpd.conf or somewhere that sets web server to allow scripts t exacute, rather than download, or just the anoymouse user (nobody?)does not have the correct permissions????
IIS5 user wanting to learn PHP..

Anon

Yeah, I've got exactly the same problem (also on SuSE 8.0), so if you find a solution, please let me know! (rikkert86@hotmail.com)

spegger

Hello, Looks like this has been open for a while but I have same problem described but having trouble finding solution to the appropiate /usr/local/conf/httpd.conf edit with RH 8.0.

Problem: Php page, when selected, tries to be downloaded instead of presenting output of php code.

Thanks,

CDHS

...& the php file is in the root or any other sub directory of your server?

spegger

the directory for this php_ex.php file is /usr/local/apache/htdocs/php_ex.php and is linked from a .html file for my web server. 🙁

tsinka

Hi,

the SuSE 8.x way is a bit different. If you installed the RPM packages provided by SuSE 8.0 and didn't compile your own version the way to activate PHP is:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/apache and modify the line

HTTPD_SEC_MOD_PHP=no

HTTPD_SEC_MOD_PHP=yes

run SuSEconfig
restart apache

I don't know if Slackware is similar to this 🙁

Thomas

tsinka

PHP (4.x) should work if the following lines exist in the httpd.conf (or in a file included by an include statement):

Assuming that libexec is the directory of the php module ...

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
AddModule mod_php4.c

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

Do you get an error about php when trying to start apache ?

Thomas

spegger

[root@linux bin]# ./apachectl start
Syntax error on line 208 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@linux bin]#

Note: I only see a httpd.exp file in /libexec/

Thanks for any help in advance.

tsinka

Hi,

search for libphp4.so on your system.

You might need to use modules/libphp4.so instead of libexec/libphp4.so. If in doubt just use the complete path to libphp4.so.

Thomas

spegger

I get the error below now after editing "LoadModule php4_module /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp4.so" after changing from "LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so"

[root@linux bin]# ./apachectl start
httpd: module "/usr/src/build/144344-i386/BUILD/php-4.2.2/sapi/apache2filter/sapi_apache2.c" is not compatible with this version of Apache (found 20020628, need 20020903).
Please contact the vendor for the correct version.

Q: I did not see anything about version of files anywhere.

Help,

tsinka

Hi,

so you use Apache 2 ? Which version ?

the PHP version seems to be too old for the apache version. Seems like you need a newer version of PHP.

Thomas

spegger

I am using:

Red Hat 8.0
Apache 2.0.50
PHP 4.3.7
MySQL 4.0.20

Do you know the best combo of versions to get php files from not trying to download and apache from not erroring.

Thanks,

tsinka

Hi,

looking at

BUILD/php-4.2.2/sapi

it seems like you're trying to load the apache 2 module of php 4.2.2. Did you recompile PHP 4.3.7 (and/or apache) yourself ?

PHP 4.3.7 should be sufficient for apache 2.0.50.

If you compiled stuff from sources your own, what where the steps ?

I assumed that you use apache 1.3.x when I posted the httpd.conf modifications in one of my last posts.

Thomas

spegger

Here is the apache 2.0.50 configure options for on the php.net site:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-so \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-info \
--enable-rewrite \
--enable-speling \
--enable-usertrack \
--enable-deflate \
--enable-ssl \
--enable-mime-magic
make
make install
Here is the php 4.3.7 configure options:

./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache/php \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/php \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--disable-cgi \
--with-zlib \
--with-gettext \
--with-gdbm

make
make install
./apachectl start ... and then errors occur.

What else could I be missing? Why does it mention php 4.2.2?

Thanks,

tsinka

Hi,

here is a description of how someone compiled apache 2.0.49 with php 4.3.x on RH 9.x. It should be the same for 8.x.

http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html

There is one advice (Step 9) that might help you:

cp -p .libs/libphp4.so /usr/local/apache/modules

after make / make install if there is an old version of libphp4.so in /usr/local/apache/modules.

Thomas

spegger

I just finished getting PHP to work after of the discussions above that failed after I tried building up new RH 8.0 server and used existing: Apache 2.0.40, PHP 4.2.2, Perl 5.8.0.

Thanks for help.

Stan