I have PHP installed on my CentOS server. However, when running a phpinfo() inside my script to test it, I receive the HTML, not the interpreted information.
I can see the folders for PHP. I can even see the php.ini in the etc folder.
But PHP itself does not seem to be working.
I mean my test.php file looks like this:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
And the response looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html><head>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;}
body, td, th, h1, h2 {font-family: sans-serif;}
pre {margin: 0px; font-family: monospace;}
a:link {color: #000099; text-decoration: none; background-color: #ffffff;}
...
and so on.
What seems to be the problem and how do I solve it?
If I copy the HTML returned, paste it into an HTML file, and run it from there, I can see the formatted result, but not by running the test.php. I assume PHP is not loaded somehow... even if in the interpreted HTML I can see the:
**Server API Apache 2.0 Handler
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php.d
additional .ini files parsed /etc/php.d/dbase.ini, /etc/php.d/json.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini
PHP API 20041225
PHP Extension 20050922
Zend Extension 220051025
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams php, file, http, ftp, compress.bzip2, compress.zlib, https, ftps**
and so on...
On this system, there are three websites hosted. Does that have anything to do with this problem?
I just had the same issue and found that a client had disabled this function from their php.ini file:
; This directive allows you to disable certain functions for security reasons.
; It receives a comma-delimited list of function names. This directive is
; *NOT* affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.
disable_functions = phpinfo;
More information: Enabling and disabling phpinfo() for security reasons
Try to create a php.ini file in root and write the following command in and save it.
disable_functions =
Using this code will enable the phpinfo() function for you if it is disabled by the global PHP configuration.
I had the same problem.
The solution in my case was to set default_mimetype = "text/html" inside the php.ini file.
Be sure that the tag "php" is stick in the code like this:
?php phpinfo(); ?>
Not like this:
? php phpinfo(); ?>
OR the server will treat it as a (normal word), so the server will not understand the language you are writing to deal with it so it will be blank.
I know it's a silly error ...but it happened ^_^
My solution was uninstalling and installing the PHP instance (7.0 in my case) again:
sudo apt-get purge php7.0
sudo apt-get install php7.0
After that you will need to restart the Apache service:
sudo service apache2 restart
Finally, verify again in your browser with your localhost or IP address.
Another possible answer for Windows 10:
The command httpd -k restart does not work on my machine somehow.
Try to use the Windows 10 Service to restart the relative service.
I accidentally set the wrong file permissions. After chmod 644 phpinfo.php the info indeed showed up as expected.
It happened to me as well. On a newly provisioned Red Hat Linux 7 server.
When I run a PHP page, i.e. info.php, I could see plain text PHP scripts instead of executing them.
I just installed PHP:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install php
And then restarted Apache HTTP Server:
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart httpd
For people who have no experience in building websites (like me) I tried a lot, only to find out that I hadn't used the .php extension, but the .html extension.
This did it for me (the second answer): Why are my PHP files showing as plain text?
Simply adding this, nothing else worked.
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
You need to update your Apache configuration to make sure it's outputting php as the type text/HTML.
The below code should work, but some configurations are different.
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
It may not work for you if you use localhost/info.php.
You may be able to found the clue from the error. Find the port number in the error message. To me it was 80. I changed address as http://localhost:80/info.php, and then it worked to me.
Save the page which contains
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
with the .php extension. Something like info.php, not info.html...
This happened to me as well. The fix was wrapping it in HTML tags. Then I saved the file as /var/www/html/info.php and ran http://localhost/info.php in the browser. That's it.
<html>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>
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