Posted by swiftfalcon on 08/08/07 21:04

On Aug 8, 2:24 pm, dkruger <davidkru...@techie.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 12:43 pm, swiftfal...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Aug 8, 1:20 pm, dkruger <davidkru...@techie.com> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 8, 10:13 am, swiftfal...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > > We're setting up a webserver w. RHEL 4.1 and PHP 4.3. I'm sure there
> > > > is a setting somewhere that's been confounding me. When I create a
> > > > file "test.php" and insert:
> > > > <?php
> > > > phpinfo();
> > > > ?>
> > > > It displays as expected in the browser but when the file is reopened
> > > > from the server to be edited, the file contains the output from the
> > > > phpinfo() call rather then the three lines of code above. Anyone have
> > > > ideas as to why this is happening?
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> > > if you use 'php test.php' to "re-open" the file, it will output the
> > > content generated by the php script, but if you edit test.php with 'vi
> > > test.php' or something of the sort, you should see the code you
> > > entered previously instead of the generated info.
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> > You're corrent that through vi I do see the code. I'm starting to
> > think this may be a WebDAV issue.- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> It could be the notepad++ program, I am personally not familiar with
> that, however, if you are accessing the file through windows (i
> assume) for viewing/editing, likely using the URL for the file to open
> it, then the server is executing the script as though a web browser
> requested it and is sending the output of the script...just my guess.
> If you run some sort of editing program on your server, to make the
> changes, probably the issue would not occur.

Thanks for the advice but what it ended up is that the line "ForceType
text/plain" was missing from our conf file. So the code was being
preprocessed.

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