On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Juan Mas wrote:

> To: php-install@lists.php.net
> From: Juan Mas <juan.mas@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PHP-INSTALL] Browser tries to download php file
> 
> Hi list,
>
> I have a Gentoo server that has been running for over a year with
> Apache 1.3 & mod_perl 1.3.  I recently decided to add PHP 5 to it.  I
> re-compiled Apache using this howto
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#mod_perl_and_mod_php
>
> When I look at the Apache logs, I am seeing the PHP is being loaded
>
> [Thu Jun 25 10:09:14 2009] [notice] Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5
> mod_perl/1.30 configured -- resuming normal operations
>
>
> I have added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php, and the AddHandler
> to the httpd.conf file, and index.php to DirectoryIndex.  When I try
> to display php info in a browser, the browser tries download the php
> instead of displaying the page.  I've tried a bunch of different
> commands in the conf file, none have seemed to work.  Ive added
> Action, or AddType script-php5, or adding as text/html at which point
> the page displays but it doesn't parse the php.

Are you sure that you are editing the correct httpd.conf file?

Is there more than one of these files on your system?

Did you stop and then start Apache to force it to re-read 
httpd.conf?

If you have compiled apache yourself, has the Apache that 
comes with your distribution been removed?

Try adding some deliberate errors into your httpd.conf then 
running apachectl -t to check it for syntax errors you have 
added. You should then get some syntax errors. This will 
confirm that you are editing the working httpd.conf if there 
are more than one there on the system.

If you are compiling Apache yourself, where is it getting 
installed to, as it will use the httpd.conf under the 
--prefix, which will default to something like /usr/local.

HTH

Keith Roberts