[TriLUG] Strange PHP problem

[Dave Sorenson]

OK I realize it's bad form to respond to your own message, but make sure 
your httpd/conf.d/ has a php..ini file as well as that is where the libs 
are loaded and the addtype is defined.

Dave Sorenson wrote:
> 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