Apache is downloading php files instead of displaying them

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OS and server information    CentOS 6 4  Final  Apache 2 2 15 PHP 5 5 1   I previously had php 5 3 x installed but decided to upgrade  I first uninstalled the php 5 3 x and then installed php 5 5 1 but after the installation completed apache did not parse the php files it just downloaded them  I have checked similar questions here in stackoverflow but none of them have helped me so far   For the record I have the following lines in my httpd conf and php conf that should make php work but don t   AddHandler application x-httpd-php  php5  php4  php  php3  php2  phtml AddType application x-httpd-php  php5  php4  php  php3  php2  phtml AddType application x-httpd-php-source  phps AddHandler php5-script  php   I would really appreciate any help  Thank you   EDIT   I have these lines in the php conf   lt IfModule  worker c gt    LoadModule php5 module modules libphp5 so  lt  IfModule gt   lt IfModule worker c gt    LoadModule php5 module modules libphp5-zts so  lt  IfModule gt    EDIT   By removing the   AddType application x-httpd-php  php5  php4  php  php3  php2  phtml   apache no longer downloads the file  Now apache is showing the source code  but not all of it just part  I added  AddType text html  php   but no luck

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The correct AddType for php is application/x-httpd-php

AddType  application/x-httpd-php         .php
AddType  application/x-httpd-php-source  .phps

Also make sure your php module is loaded

LoadModule php5_module        modules/mod_php55.so

When you're configuring apache then try to view the page from another browser - I've had days when chrome stubbornly caches the result and it keeps downloading the source code while in another browser it's just fine.

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I spent two days tracking this and found out that I was putting my PHP scripts in the wrong directory   On my standard Ubuntu installation  I was putting the scripts in  var www   They should have been in  var www html   I just started PHP work  so I don t know if my solution relates to the version change you went through

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I had the same problem after using zypper rm php  to uninstall PHP and installing it again with zypper in php7 php7-gd php7-gettext php7-mbstring php7-mysql php7-pear I solved it by enabling the apache2 module and restarting the webserver  a2enmod php7  amp  amp  service apache2 restart

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If none of the above works   try commenting out the line  SetHandler        and restart apache using    etc init d httpd restart   It should work

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If Your  htaccess have anything like this         AddHandler application x-httpd-php53  php  php5  php4  php3 then comment it and try again refreshing this worked for me

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I had this problem  It turned out that I had both nginx and apache installed and automatically starting on boot  The problem was that nginx was binding to the http port first which prevented apache from starting

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This might be happening due to the missing modules required for your php  Assuming you have php7 installed  search available php7 modules using   sudo apt-cache search php7-    Above command will list all available PHP7 modules for installation  You can begin installation of modules like   sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7 0 php7 0-mysql php7 0-curl php7 0-json

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I got this kind of problem  This is how I solve it  After installed Apache then I installed PHP using this command   sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php   it executes correctly but I request  php file from Apache  it gives without executing the PHP script   Then I check PHP is enabled     cd  etc apache2   ls -l mods-   php    but it didn t show any results  I check installed PHP packages     dpkg -l   grep php  awk   print  2    tr   n        Different type of PHP versions installed to my computer  Then I remove some PHP packages from my previous list  using apt-get purge   sudo apt-get purge libapache2-mod-php7 0 php7 0 php7 0-cli php7 0-common php7 0-json   I reinstall PHP  sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql   Verify that the PHP module is loaded    a2query -m php7 0   if not enabled with     sudo a2enmod php7 0   Restart Apache server    sudo systemctl restart apache2   Finally  I check PHP process on Apache  create an empty file   sudo vim  var www html info php   Add this content to info php  amp  save    lt  php   phpinfo      gt    Check on browser      http   localhost info php   it shows correctly I think this will help anyone

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In case someone is using php7 under a Linux environment  Make sure you enable php7  sudo a2enmod php7   Restart the mysql service and Apache  sudo systemctl restart mysql sudo systemctl restart apache2

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It s also possible that you have nginx running but your php is set up to run with apache  To verify  run service nginx status and service apache2 status to see which is running  In the case that nginx is running and apache is not  just run sudo service nginx stop  sudo service apache2 start and your server will now serve php files as expected

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this solved the problem for me  I have php7 installed    sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7 0  sudo service apache2 restart

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If Your  htaccess have anything like this  AddType application x-httpd-ea-php56  php  php5  phtm  html  htm

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I had a similar problem to the OP when upgrading php5 from an older version  to 5 5 9  which is the version installed with Mint 17   I m running a LAMP setup on a machine on my local network  which I use to preview changes to websites before I upload those changes to the actual live server   So I maintain a perfect local mirror of the actual site   After the upgrade  files which run and display perfectly on the actual site would not display  or would only display html on the local machine   PHP was not parsed   The phpinfo   command worked  so I knew php was otherwise working  The log generated no errors   Viewing the page source showed me the actual php code   I had constructed a test php page that contained the following code    lt  php     phpinfo      gt   This worked   Then I discovered when I changed  lt  php to  lt   the command no longer worked   All my php sites use  lt   instead of  lt  php which might not be ideal  but it s the reality   I fixed the problem by going to  etc php5 apache2   searching for  short open tag  and changing the value from Off to On

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After struggling a lot I finally solved the problem   If you are prompted to download a  php file instead of executing it  then here is the perfect solution  I assume that you have installed PHP5 already and still getting this error     sudo su   a2enmod php5   This is it   But If you are still getting the error    Config file php5 conf not properly enabled   etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf is a real file  not touching it   then do the following   Turns out files shouldn t be stored in mods-enabled  but should rather be stored in mods-available  A symlink should then be created in mods-enabled pointing to the file stored in mods-available   First remove the original     mv  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf  etc apache2 mods-available    Then create the symbolic link     ln -s  etc apache2 mods-available php5 conf  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf   I hope your problem is solved

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For people who have found this post from Google almost 6 years in the future  and beyond    you may run into this problem with Apache 2 and PHP 7 while also using the UserDir module   Another possible cause of this problem could be that you are trying to run the script in a  user directory  from the the UserDir module   Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default   You will run into this problem if the script is in the public html directory in your home folder and you are trying to access it from http   localhost  your username   To fix this  open up  etc apache2 mods-enabled php7 2 conf   You must comment or delete the tag block at the bottom that reads   lt IfModule mod userdir c gt       lt Directory  home   public html gt          php admin flag engine Off      lt  Directory gt   lt  IfModule gt

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After updating PHP to 7 3  PHP scripts where run with www-data instead of  USER like before   I needed to reinstall and activate PHP-FPM    sudo apt-get install php-fpm sudo a2enmod proxy fcgi setenvif sudo service apache2 restart sudo a2enconf php7 3-fpm sudo service apache2 restart   To ensure everything was ok for Virtualmin  i used the Re-Check Configuration wizard  virtual-server check cgi  under Vitualmin System Settings    After that  Apache PHP was downloading php files instead of running them  So i needed to edit  etc apache2 mods-available php7 3 conf to comment the row SetHandler application x-httpd-php like below     lt FilesMatch      ph ar p tml    gt       SetHandler application x-httpd-php  lt  FilesMatch gt    After restarting Apache  it solved my issue  hope this help   Take care of browser cache too   My system    Ubuntu          16 04 6 LTS Webmin version      1 932 Usermin version     1 780 Virtualmin version  6 08 Apache version      2 4 41 PHP versions        7 3 12 PHP-FPM         7 3 12 Server

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PHP56  vim  etc httpd conf httpd conf  LoadModule php5 module        libexec apache libphp5 so AddType application x-httpd-php  php AddType application x-httpd-php-source  phps

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If you have virtualmin try to comment out these lines in your apache configuration in  etc apache2 sites-available     RemoveHandler  php    RemoveHandler  php7 0    php admin value engine Off

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I previously has a similar issue  after upgrading from 5 3 to 5 4  But my setup looks a little bit different as that I m running Debian and using fcgid to server the PHP pages  and not the PHP5 apache cgi module  So after I upgraded  it also installed php5 cgi  which collided with my fcgid setup  and would not execute PHP files anymore   I had to disable the Apache Module and restart Apache  a2dismod php5 cgi  etc init d apache2 restart   Once the php5 cgi module was out of the way  fcgid was able to serve PHP pages again

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I had similar symptoms  yet another solution  in  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf there was a helpful advice in the comment  which I followed      To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines    from  lt IfModule     gt  to  lt  IfModule gt    Do NOT set it to On as it   prevents  htaccess files from disabling it

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I have the same problem  Apache doesn t load php files from a certain website  just downloaded it  I read this post and the answers and I have seen I ve got this line into the last place of the  htaccess file   AddHandler x-mapp-php5 5   php   I have commented it and everything works fine   Thanks to all

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When i upgraded from PHP 7 2 to PHP 7 4  i also got same issue  Worked by doing following -  In  domain  conf file  commented following  php admin value engine Off  And Added  AddType  application x-httpd-php-source   phps AddType text html  php   Disable mod 7 2 and enable 7 4 by following  a2dismod php7 2 a2enmod php7 4   In  etc apache2 mods-enabled php7 4 conf file  comment following  SetHandler application x-httpd-php php admin flag engine Off

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Please take a look at your addtype directives    It looks to me like Apache is telling the browser that it s sending a document type of application php for scripts with extensions like  php5  In fact Apache is supposed to tell the browser that the script is outputting text html    Please try this   AddType text html  php   Regarding the suggestion above that you should tell the browser that you are outputting a PHP script  It seemed like an unusual idea to me  I googled it and found that there is quite a bit of discussion about it on the web  Apparently there are cases where you might want to say that you are sending a PHP script  even though Apache is supposed to execute the script and emit text html   and there are also cases where the browser simply doesn t recognize that specific Mime Type    Clearing your browser cache is always a good idea   In case it s helpful here s a copy of my  etc httpd conf d php conf file from a server running CentOS 5 9               PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it                                                easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages                                                       lt IfModule prefork c gt    LoadModule php5 module modules libphp5 so  lt  IfModule gt   lt IfModule worker c gt    LoadModule php5 module modules libphp5-zts so  lt  IfModule gt       Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a  php extension    AddHandler php5-script  php AddType text html  php      Add index php to the list of files that will be served as directory   indexes    DirectoryIndex index php      Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print  phps   files as PHP source code     AddType application x-httpd-php-source  phps

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I had this problem and if you actually never played with your server configuration settings  then your problem is 90  in your  htaccess file  You either modify  htaccess file LOCALLY  ore delete it  LOCALLY

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I came across this issue today and none of the solutions described worked for me  So here is another possible cause   If you have something like  AddHandler x-mapp-php6  php3  php4  php  phtml   in a  htaccess file of your web content folder  it can cause your PHP scripts to stop working  In my case the server did not know the x-mapp-php6 type  since that  htaccess file was something I imported from a different web host when I transferred the website content   Just removing the AddHandler line from the  htaccess file solved it for me

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Ok    I know that there are 1 000 000 answers to this questions already  - but I have spent at least 6 effective hours  figuring this one out  and I have googled it hundreds of times and not found a single post about it  So I figured that I would add the solution to my problem here    The conclusion  If I commented these two lines out in my  conf-files in the  etc apache2   SERVER-NAME  conf-file   php admin value engine Off IPCComTimeout 31   I have no idea what they do or how they got there  - but it is in every one of my  conf-files  And if I remove those lines and ensure that there is a symlink in  etc apache2 sites-enabled -folder  then it doesn t download the index php - and every works as it should   The entire story  I have VirtualMin installed on an Ubuntu 16 04 VPS  I upgraded to PHP version 7 2  Shortly after that  I updated the Ubuntu-version and struck a  Kernel Offset  Disabled -error  So I had to go delete the latest Ubuntu-version  - and when my OS booted up again  BOOM  I got the error that his post talks about  For every site on my VPS  it simply downloaded the index php instead of showing it    I tried all kinds of stuff    Removed PHP7 2 and installed PHP5 6  I know now  that the PHP-version has nothing to do with it  it s the apache-configuration that needs work    Tried enabling and disabling apache modules  on the existing installation  but without luck   Then I removed apache completely and installed it again  where-after the problem was still there  Tried playing around with the Virutal Server setup in VirtualMin   Webmin    Servers    Apache Webserver     Checked the configuration on a single Virtual-server   Virtualmin    System Settings    Re-Check Configuration      This step was pretty nice  since it told which module in Apache was missing  where-after I could enable it with a2enmod  MODULE NAME   And I found the module name by Googling around  I had to active about 6-8 modules  before I got past that step in the validation - and it took a couple of minutes before the cache ran out  - so doing this was a tedious step  And lastly  I figured out above-written conclusion - together with the symlinks  - and then I got it to work  I had to go through it for every site on my VPS  though

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