[TriLUG] Strange PHP problem

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Tue May 16 10:53:37 EDT 2006


Sounds like php is not being loaded with apache. Did the upgrade move 
the location of PHP? Check your httpd.conf file and make sure the PHP 
module is being loaded, then check the php.ini and make sure all the 
paths to the PHP libs are correct.

Matt Nash wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am having a problem with my Apache2/PHP5 installation on a 
> relatively new Ubuntu Dapper installation.  I regularly perform a 
> dist-upgrade and I believe it was after one of these that my problems 
> began.
>
> I have been testing out SugarCRM as well as using phpmyadmin to manage 
> MySQL, and these apps have been working just fine.  Suddenly, the web 
> server has started treating PHP scripts as files to download rather 
> than scripts to execute.  The browser says "You have chosen to open 
> (...) which is a: application/x-httpd-php.  What should Firefox do 
> with this file?"  There is empty space in place of the (...), not a 
> file name.
>
> I have been through the Apache config file and added a ScriptAlias and 
> Action directive to try to solve this, but nothing I do seems to have 
> any effect.  In fact, I can't seem to change the name of the MIME type 
> in the error message-- if I change the line in apache2.conf to read 
> "AddType application/x-httpd-phpBLAH .php" then the message that 
> Firefox pops up still includes "application/x-httpd-php".
>
> To add to the confusion, if I type the full path to an actual PHP 
> script into the address bar, I get a slightly different message: "You 
> have chosen to open index.php which is a: PHP file"
>
> Even stranger, I still get the "What should Firefox do with this 
> file?" message after I have stopped Apache.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Matt



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