Why are my PHP files showing as plain text

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I ve been writing PHP applications using PHP for a while in WAMP  Now I m installing PHP and Apache HTTP Server separately on my work PC  I ve installed PHP 5  and the latest Apache  I go to localhost and see it works   Now I add a file called test php which displays    lt  php     phpinfo      gt    But in the browser it just displays plain text  Is there somewhere I have explicitly tell it to use PHP 5

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Are you using the userdir mod   In that case the thing is that PHP5 seems to be disabling running scripts from that location by default and you have to comment out the following lines    lt IfModule mod userdir c gt       lt Directory  home   public html gt          php admin flag engine Off      lt  Directory gt   lt  IfModule gt    in  etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf  on a ubuntu system

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You will need to add handlers in Apache to handle php code   Edit by command sudo vi  etc httpd conf httpd conf  Add these two handlers    AddType application x-httpd-php  php   AddType application x-httpd-php  php3   at position specified below   lt IfModule mime module gt    AddType application x-compress  Z  AddType application x-gzip  gz  tgz  --Add Here--    lt  IfModule gt    for more details on AddType handlers  http   httpd apache org docs 2 2 mod mod mime html

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You need to configure Apache  the webserver  to process PHP scripts as PHP  Check Apache s configuration  You need to load the module  the path may differ on your system    LoadModule php5 module  c  php php5apache dll    And you also need to tell Apache what to process with PHP   AddType application x-httpd-php  php   See the documentation for more details

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Yet another reason  not for this case  but maybe it ll save some nerves for someone  is that in PHP 5 5 short open tags  lt   phpinfo      gt  are disabled by default   So the PHP interpreter would process code within short tags as plain text  In previous versions PHP this feature was enable by default  So the new behaviour can be a little bit mysterious

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You might also  like me  have installed php-cgi prior to installing Apache and when doing so it doesn t set up Apache properly to run PHP  removing PHP entirely and reinstalling seemed to fix my problem

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You should install the PHP 5 library for Apache   For Debian and Ubuntu   apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5   And restart the Apache   service apache2 restart

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You ll need to add this to your server configuration   AddType application x-httpd-php  php   That is assuming you have installed PHP properly  which may not be the case since it doesn t work where it normally would immediately after installing   It is entirely possible that you ll also have to add the php  so  dll file to your Apache configuration using a LoadModule directive  usually in httpd conf

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