From:	Keith Roberts	Date:	Tue Jun 30 12:53:42 2009
Subject:	Re: Browser tries to download php file

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Juan Mas wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net>
> From: Juan Mas <juan.mas@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Browser tries to download php file
> 
> The httpd.conf file is in /usr/local/apache/conf
>
> Im using Apache 1.3 because that's what I had loaded on this
> originally with mod_perl.. I was most familiar with setting up Apache
> 1.3/mod_perl with the helpdesk application we use here. So I was
> making it easier on myself.. Or so I thought.
>
> The apache logs are showing on startup:
>
> Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5 mod_perl/1.30 configured -- resuming
> normal operations
>
> The httpd -l (Im typing out full path to /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd)
> is showing the two modules loaded:
>
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l
> Compiled-in modules:
>  ...
>
>  mod_perl.c
>  mod_php5.c
>
> And my httpd.conf file (/usr/local/apache/conf) has these entries
> under mod_mime:
>
>        AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
>        AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
>
>        AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
>
> But still. My browser still tries to download the php file when I try
> to view it.  I just tried re-compiling PHP just in case... No change.
> Im at a total loss!  Let me know if there's any other info I can give.

Are you sure there is not another version of Apache running 
on your machine that's not configured properly? - ie 
something that is installed by default with Gentoo Linux and 
not setup to process php documents?

Regards,

Keith