Apache shows PHP code instead of executing it

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I have recently been trying to install PHP and Apache on my computer  After many hours  they re installed  I have modified the httpd conf and php ini files like everyone says  I then created a simple PHP script   lt  php phpinfo      gt   But when I try to run it with http   127 0 0 1 phpinfo php it just shows the source code instead of executing it  I am using Apache 2  PHP 5 and Windows Vista  EDITED LINES  PHP INI  short open tag   On  HTTPD CONF LoadModule php5 module  quot C  php php5apache2 2 dll quot  AddType application x-httpd-php  php AddType application x-httpd-php-source  phps PHPIniDir  quot C  php quot

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I had the same problem  caused by the Debian  Ubuntu default configuration of module suphp  It contained suPHP Engine off for whole  usr share  which resulted in the php sources being shown in the browser  Deactivating with a2dismod suphp was the interim solution

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For PHP 7  May apply to previous versions as well   but I had to do this   Add this to the bottom of  etc apache2 apache2 conf    lt FilesMatch   php  gt  SetHandler application x-httpd-php  lt  FilesMatch gt    Run this from the terminal   sudo a2dismod mpm event  amp  amp  sudo a2enmod mpm prefork  amp  amp  sudo a2enmod php7   Then don t forget to restart Apache so it knows you changed stuff   sudo service apache2 restart   This is a summary from  https   www atlantic net community howto try-php7-lamp-ubuntu-14-04

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If you are a ubuntu user  after installing apache must run the following command in fresh installation  sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt   In my case works fine

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This was happening to me also when running   POST in MAMP  All of my  ini and httpd files were all set up correctly  If you are doing form handling and you have an html document and posting the info to a php formhandler running  POST  make sure that you are running the html file from localhost via your server  and not just locally    This was a shortcut I did to run html documents  by just clicking the html file in my directory and launching in my web browser  when in reality to check if php is being processed in your form  you must run your html through your servers  A very simple protocol that I overlooked   Example   Wrong  file    Applications MAMP htdocs form form html  Right  http   localhost your port number form form html  Now the php should be processed once you click your submit button

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Debian 9 solution   touch  etc apache2 conf-available php conf    Add to file next lines    lt IfModule mod php5 c gt       lt IfModule mod mime c gt          AddType application x-httpd-php  php      lt  IfModule gt       lt FilesMatch      php   gt          SetHandler application x-httpd-php      lt  FilesMatch gt   lt  IfModule gt   lt IfModule mod php c gt       lt IfModule mod mime c gt          AddType application x-httpd-php  php      lt  IfModule gt       lt FilesMatch      php   gt          SetHandler application x-httpd-php      lt  FilesMatch gt   lt  IfModule gt    Then run   a2enconf php  amp  amp  service apache2 restart

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This solution worked for me  I purged apache2 and reinstall  It happened after purge and install  If it is the first install  you would not face this problem

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Some times if you have php version conflicts it happens  To overcome that please follow the below steps   Step 1   Yum list installed   grep  php      if you have multiple versions of php like php 5 6 and php 7 0 this confilict will happens    Step 2   yum remove   your php version     Step 3   Then restart the apapche  etc init d httpd restart or service apache2 restart

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You could delete your  htaceess file and let the system creates a new  blank or basic  one  It may be that some lines you added are incorrect statements  or something else inside is causing the problem  You can then add line by line from your old  htaccess file to see what caused the problem   That worked for me  The lines telling machine not to display php extensions were problem in my case  RewriteCond and RewriteRule   My old  htaccess file worked just fine on a shared server  but this issue appeared when I switched to VPS

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Apache shows php code instead of executing Issue fixed      1  Opened php5 6 conf or php7 x conf        following command         sudo vi  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 6 conf      2  Commented following lines            3  Restarted the server        sudo service apache2 restart      4 Enjoy

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Posting what worked for me in case in helps someone down the road  though it is an unusual case   I had set a handler to force my web host to use a higher version of php than their default  There s was 5 1  but I wanted 5 6 so I had this    lt FilesMatch   php  gt      SetHandler php56-cgi  lt  FilesMatch gt    in my  htaccess file   When trying to run my site locally  having that in there caused php code to be output to the browser  Removing it solved the problem

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open the file   etc apache2 httpd conf  and change   LoadModule php5 module libexec apache2 libphp5 so   into  LoadModule php5 module libexec apache2 libphp5 so   So just uncoment the PHP module load in httpd conf

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none of the above applied or worked for me    PHP7  Apache Httpd 2 2 on CentOS 6  fact is  I installed  all with yum  php BEFORE Apache    you must do the reverse  always install Apache first  then PHP  and then it works    Indeed  you are likely missing libphp7 so and libphp7-zts so in  etc httpd modules   I was able to recover anyhow without UNinstalling PHP  I did add the magic line in  etc httpd conf httpd conf  AddType application x-httpd-php  php  And then run  yum install php php-mysql

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In my case with PHP7 3 Apache2 4 Ubuntu 18 04 I had to execute    a2enmod actions fastcgi alias proxy fcgi

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Wow  lots of solutions here  Here s what I did on Ubuntu 16 04   sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php sudo a2enmod mpm prefork  amp  amp  sudo a2enmod php7 0 sudo service apache2 restart

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I found this to solve my related problem  I added it to the relevant  lt Directory gt  section    lt IfModule mod php5 c gt      php admin flag engine on  lt  IfModule gt

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if the module userdir is enabled and your site is in a userdir    public html  you must check  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf  The following part makes it work  on Ubuntu 14 10 utopic      Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default      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      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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I tried a number of the solutions above however the fix in our scenario was to install the fpm-module  We had installed httpd before php which may have had something to do with the issue  but to resolve we installed the following  yum module install php 7 2 This installed the php-fpm-7 2 11-4 module el8 1 0 5443 bc1aeb77 x86 64 rpm module which we then enabled by  systemctl enable --now php-fpm From that point we left the  etc httpd conf d php conf as default and restarted httpd service httpd restart Then everything worked  Hope this helps  took way longer than it should have to figure out

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Run Xampp  apache  as administrator  In google chrome type    localhost  lt insert folder name here gt   lt insert file name gt   i e  if folder you created is  LearnPhp   file is  chapter1 php  then type   localhost LearnPhp chapter1 php  I created this folder in the xampp folder in the htdocs folder which gets created when you download xampp

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I had the same problem  When I run a php file  the web browser showed me the php code instead of execute it  I had tried many times  uninstall reinstall the wampserver64  working around the PHP Apache settings modules  etc  After 2 days  I realised that when I tried to run the php file within the notepad   by pressing the default combination  ctrl   alt   shift   R  for chrome  It was trying to execute my php file like   file   C  wamp64 www bla bla    in my chrome s address bar  That was my problem  I made the changes according to page Configuring Notepad   to run php on localhost   My problem was solved  But after 2 days

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You must enable php  Check the folder mods-enabled in the Apache directory  default   etc apache2   to see if you find a file named php  I don t remember the extension but I think it s  so   Also check in  var log apache2 error log to see if you have any other errors

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What worked for me   In active httpd conf  find   lt IfModule mime module gt       lt  IfModule gt    It was missing the following  AddType application x-httpd-php  php AddHandler application x-httpd-php  php   After restarting apache   php files are correctly parsed

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A different answer that worked for me  Is that  to install  sudo  apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 X

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For PHP7 and Apache2 4  this is all you need to do  sudo vim  etc httpd conf httpd conf  Go to the very bottom and insert the following  all by itself    lt FilesMatch  quot     quot  gt  SetHandler application x-httpd-php  lt  FilesMatch gt   Then  restart Apache to load the new configuration  sudo service httpd restart  Apache will now execute all HTTP S requests with PHP   If all you have are html  css  and php files  then this will work fine for you   If you have other languages running  then you ll need to tailor the file matching to your situation   I ve tested this with phpMyAdmin and it works fine  None of that other stuff all the people are talking about here was necessary for me   When I put the  quot AddType Application      quot  thing in the correct spot  Apache just told me that that module was already loaded and skipped it  More information can be found here   https   httpd apache org docs 2 4 mod core html filesmatch My install was done as follows  sudo yum install -y httpd24 php70 mysql56-server php70-mysqlnd  You should also read this  if you haven t   https   httpd apache org docs current howto htaccess html when

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Alright if you ve tried what you ve been told above or earlier which are possible reasons  and it still displays the code instead of executing it then there is one thing which you are doing wrong that hasn t been addressed  The url you used to access your php code  some people try to execute their php code by just dragging the  php file into the web browser  this is wrong practice and could lead to this kind of problem  if you have saved a file as  test php  in the C   wamp www folder then you must access this file this way  localhost   test php  this kind of mistake will arise when you access it this way  localhost   wamp www test php  Hope I helped someone out there  o   Daniel

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Thanks to others on this thread for their suggestions  Following the steps mentioned I found that the apache server was not able to start reporting a syntax error in a load file in  etc apache2 mods-enabled  Turns out that both php7 0 and php7 1 were enabled   a2dismod php7 0 systemctl restart apache2   and php is rendered correctly again

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Add following configuration to  etc apache2 apache2 conf  lt FilesMatch  quot   php  quot  gt      SetHandler application x-httpd-php  lt  FilesMatch gt   And restart the apache via sudo service apache2 restart

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