PHP pages display script instead, read and tried everything

[dmcdivitt]

My machine was reimaged and I had to reinstall everything. Now I can't get PHP to process any scripts. The scripts are displayed as if a text file. This morning I uninstalled PHP and Apache and reinstalled. My Apache config file has:

#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/PHP/"

LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll"

#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

#AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

 

I've tried with and without AddType and AddHandler.

 

I have Win XP SP3, Apache 2.2.15, and PHP 5.3.2 installed as Apache module. Also I have IIS 5.1 running on port 82. I need that for classic ASP pages. Everything was working fine before my machine was reimaged. Help please!

[PFMaBiSmAd]

What does your php code look like (show us the opening php tag in the file also)?

[dmcdivitt]

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

These would be the minimum lines needed -

PHPIniDir "your_actual_path_here"
LoadModule php5_module "your_actual_path_here/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

 

Did you stop and start the web server after making any changes so that they would take effect?

[dmcdivitt]

Yes, I stopped and started the server each time. Just now I tried changing to CGI instead of Apache module. No difference.

 

The PHP extension does not seem to be recognized or it's being masked, but I don't see how. IIS is running on another PORT. All my ASP.NET applications run through the Apache server fine via mod_aspdotnet, so the Apache server is recognizing and processing different file extensions.

 

When I install PHP I don't use the IIS option but one of the Apache options.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

PHP INSTALLER EDITS

 

It would appear that you are using the php .msi installer package? If so, good luck. You should manually install php from the .zip package.

[dmcdivitt]

I've never had an issue with the MSI installer package before. I did try something which had an effect. I change the Apache config to the following:

 

#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/PHP/"

LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll"

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php phpz php

#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

 

This told it to use the file extension PHPZ in addition to PHP. That worked. If I rename a .php file to .phpz, the script runs properly. It won't run as .php though.

 

I will download the zipped version of PHP and see if that makes a difference. I don't think it will though.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Are there any other instances of 'php' settings in your httpd.conf file?

[dmcdivitt]

No. I have an application defined as follows. If I put the PHPZ file there it works.

 

#php

Alias /php "C:/websites/php"

<Directory "C:/websites/php">

    Options FollowSymlinks Indexes

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

 

[dmcdivitt]

RESOLVED

 

I uninstalled PHP that was done via msi file, unzipped the PHP zip file to c:\php and placed the following in Apache config:

 

PHPIniDir "C:/php/"

LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"

 

I had the AddHandler line too, but upon trying without it I left it commented out. Apache says all virtual paths are scripted by default which is why the AddHandler isn't necessary. Having Apache read PHP from c:\Program Files is identical to c:\php. As mentioned earlier the PHPZ extension was working so that proves PHP was working.

 

I like doing the zip version better because no install/uninstall is necessary. All that's required is to replace files at c:\php.

 

I don't know what fixed the problem but I'm not going to worry about it.

 

[dmcdivitt]

The problem I was having was a result of pages being cached in the browser. It was only by chance I got it to work at all! I assume I just happened to refresh the page I was testing with, otherwise it wouldn't have worked. Following that some pages were working and others not. When I reset the cache everything worked.