Posted by John Nichel on 09/29/05 17:15

Chris Boget wrote:
> Since I was having so much difficulty getting PHP (with libxml2)
> installed on RH9, I decided to take the advice given by several
> people and use Fedora Core 4 instead, which I get installed w/o
> difficulty. So next is Apache/PHP and I download Apache version
> 2.0.54 and PHP version 5.0.5. Following the instructions on the
> PHP site (http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php)
> exactly, I'm able to get both configured and installed w/o difficulty.
> I first test Apache by going to localhost to see if the server is running.
> It is. Then I modify the httpd.conf file as instructed at the above
> page by adding the LoadModule and AddType and then create a
> 'hello world' php script to make sure php is working.
>
> The problem I'm getting is when I access the page, it's showing me
> the actual php code and not the parsed result. I looked in the modules
> directory to see if the libphp5.so file is there and it is. I
> did notice something odd, though. In the httpd.conf file there are
> a large number of LoadModule lines for modules that are not in
> the modules directory. Could that be causing my problem?
>
> In any case, if someone could give me some pointers are to where
> I should concentrate my attentions in order to resolve this problem,
> I would be very appreciative!

Is there a line like this in your httpd.conf...?

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

(Don't forget to restart Apache ;)

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John C. Nichel
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716.856.9675
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