index php not loading by default

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I have just installed CentOS  Apache and PHP  When I visit my site http   example com myapp   it says  forbidden   By default it s not loading the index php file   When I visit http   example com myapp index php  it works fine   Any idea how to fix that issue

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After reading all this and trying to fix it  I got a simple solution on ubuntu forum  https   help ubuntu com community ApacheMySQLPHP   The problem lies with libapache2-mod-php5 module  Thats why the browser downloads the index php file rather than showing the web page  Do the following  If sudo a2enmod php5 returns module does not exist then the problem is with libapache2-mod-php5  Purge remove the module with command sudo apt-get --purge remove libapache2-mod-php5 Then install it again sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

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Apache needs to be configured to recognize index php as an index file   The simplest way to accomplish this     Create a  htaccess file in your web root  Add the line              DirectoryIndex index php      Here is a resource regarding the matter    http   www twsc biz twsc hosting htaccess php  Edit  I m assuming apache is configured to allow  htaccess files  If it isn t  you ll have to modify the setting in apache s configuration file  httpd conf

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I had same problem with a site on our direct admin hosted site  I added  DirectoryIndex index php   as a custom httd extension  which adds code to a sites httpd file  and the site then ran the index php by default

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At a guess I d say the directory index is set to index html  or some variant  try   DirectoryIndex index html index php   This will still give index html priority over index php  handy if you need to throw up a maintenance page

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For info   in some Apache2 conf you must add the DirectoryIndex command in mods enabled dir conf   it s not located in apache2 conf

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This post might be old but i am just posting it incase it helps some other person  I would not advise to Create a  htaccess file in your web root and change the index  I feel it is better to follow the steps   Go to the conf folder of your apache folder mine is   C  Apache24 conf  Open the file named   httpd conf Go to the section    lt IfModule dir module gt     DirectoryIndex index html     lt  IfModule gt   Add index php to it as shown below    lt IfModule dir module gt    DirectoryIndex index html index php   lt  IfModule gt     This way  it still picks index html and index php as the default index but giving priority to index html because index html came before  index php  By this I mean in you have both index html and index php in the same directory  the index html will be used as the default index except you write   index php  before index hml  I hope it helps someone    Happy Coding

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While adding  DirectoryIndex index php  to a  htaccess file may work   NOTE      In general  you should never use  htaccess files   This is quoted from http   httpd apache org docs 1 3 howto htaccess html Although this refers to an older version of apache  I believe the principle still applies   Adding the following to your httpd conf  if you have access to it  is considered better form  causes less server overhead and has the exact same effect    lt Directory  myapp gt  DirectoryIndex index php  lt  Directory gt

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Step by step and Full instruction for Ubuntu 16 04 4 LTS and Apache 2 4 18   sudo -s    cd  etc apache2 mods-enabled    vi dir conf  and move index php to right after DirectoryIndex like below and save file then restart apache server                 DirectoryIndex index php index html index cgi index pl index xhtml index htm     service apache2 restart   If you do not see dir conf then you will need to load it  google for how to   Done

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Same issue for me   My solution was that mod dir was not enabled and apache2 was not issuing an error when reading the directive in my VirtualHost file   DirectoryIndex index html   Using the commands   sudo a2enmod dir sudo sudo service apache2 restart   Fixed the issue

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This might be helpful to somebody  here is the snippet from httpd conf  Apache version 2 2 windows     DirectoryIndex  sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory   is requested     lt IfModule dir module gt      DirectoryIndex index html     DirectoryIndex index php  lt  IfModule gt    now this will look for index html file if not found it will look for index php

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This one works like a charm   First   lt IfModule dir module gt      DirectoryIndex index html      DirectoryIndex index php  lt  IfModule gt    then after that from    lt Files   ht   gt      Require all denied  lt  Files gt    to    lt Files   ht   gt      Require all granted  lt  Files gt

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I had a similar symptom  In my case though  my idiocy was in unintentionally also having an empty index html file in the web root folder  Apache was serving this rather than index php when I didn t explicitly request index php  since DirectoryIndex was configured as follows in mods-available dir conf   DirectoryIndex index html index cgi index pl index php index xhtml index htm   That is   index html  appears ahead of  index php  in the priority list  Removing the index html file from the web root naturally resolved the problem  D oh

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Try creating a  htaccess file with the following  DirectoryIndex index php   Edit  Actually  isn t there a  php-apache  package or something that you re supposed to install with both of them

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