[TriLUG] Strange PHP problem

[Josh Vickery]

If you choose to save the file in firefox what does it contain?  HTML
or PHP source?  If the files contain HTML then PHP is working, but
Apache and Firefox are fighting over mime-types.  If the file contains
PHP source, then PHP is not working.

There is no way to be sure without looking at what Apache serves up,
but I'm betting that it is a mime-type issue, and not a PHP config
issue.  I had a similar problem recently when I installed Sun's JDK
and it created a /etc/mime.types file containing the single
uncommented line:
type=application/x-java-jnlp-file desc="Java Web Start" exts="jnlp"

/etc/mime.types.dpkg-dist was later created by the Debian package
"mime-support", and so copying that file over /etc/mime.types fixed my
Apache problems.

I've also noticed that Firefox has a habit of caching mime-type
information about a URL until the entire browser has been restarted,
which might explain why you get the same error, even when Apache isn't
running.

Josh

On 5/16/06, Matt Nash <mattnash at intrex.net> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that all of those directives were already being
> executed, but I created the file anyway.  All I got was the same error
> about the module already being loaded, and no change in my symptoms.
>
> Dave Sorenson wrote:
> > ACK!! my bad.. httpd/conf.d/ should have a php.conf file, not a copy
> > of php.ini... here's what mine has in it:
> >
> >
> > <BOP>
> > # PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
> > # easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
> > #
> >
> > LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
> >
> > #
> > # Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
> > #
> > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> > # AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> >
> > #
> > # Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
> > # indexes.
> > #
> > DirectoryIndex index.php
> >
> > <EOP>
> > you'll need to make the changes for PHP5
> >
> > Sorry for the mislead... dang it I hate the start of a new semester..
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Matt Nash wrote:
> >> Thanks for your quick response, Dave.
> >>
> >> '/usr/sbin/apache2 -l' does not list php or php5.  However,
> >> '/usr/sbin/a2enmod php5' returns 'This module is already enabled!'.
> >> When I look at the / directory listing on my browser, the bottom line
> >> reads "Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2-1ubuntu2 Server at stewbuntu
> >> Port 80"
> >>
> >> Adding a LoadModule directive to apache2.conf for libphp5.so results
> >> in a warning that the module is already loaded.
> >>
> >> I tried copying php.ini to /etc/apache2/conf.d but restarting apache
> >> resulted in an error indicating it couldn't parse the file.
> >>
> >> There is an AddType line already in apache2.conf for php.  Adjusting
> >> the defined name of this type has no effect on the error message.
> >>
> >> Dave Sorenson wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>
>
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