Apache does not process PHP

[peredur]

• Shutdown apache2
• Uninstall everything related to Apache2 and PHP5 again
• rm -fr /etc/apache2 and /etc/php5
• Run sudo apt-get clean
• Reinstall Apache2, php5 and libapache2-mod-php5
• Hope

Nope. Hope was in vain. I guess it's wait for my new box or install LAMPP. Probably the latter in the short term, in case I get a contract for PHP work in the meantime.

One thing's for sure, I won't be going anywhere near Zend again.

Cheers


Peter
http://www.peredur.net

[peredur]

Well, this is just the weirdest thing. I uninstalled everything to do with apache and php and installed LAMPP (into /opt). I started LAMPP and ran the security scripts and all that and then tried to run the usual:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

to check that PHP was OK.

It wasn't. I get exactly the same problem even using LAMPP. I have to be missing something absolutely fundamental here.

Help??

Cheers


Peter
http://www.peredur.net

[snyderpa]

I was having the same problem. In my case the source was a condition in the configuration file at /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>


Since we are using libapache2-mod-php5 and not mod_php, I eliminated the condition and kept the AddType statements and restarted the apache server and that solved the problem. I am not sure what put the configuration file there -- I am using Zend Framework but also a whole lot of other carp.

[peredur]

I was having the same problem. In my case the source was a condition in the configuration file at /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf

Hmm. I don't have a file called /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf. Should I have?

Cheers


Peter

[peredur]

Hmm. I don't have a file called /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf. Should I have?

I realised that I didn't have the files because I'd given up and uninstalled the module. So I reinstalled it and tried again. The contents of the php5.conf file after the installion were:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
	SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    </FilesMatch>
    <FilesMatch "\.phps$">
	SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
    </FilesMatch>
    # To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines
    # (from <IfModule ...> to </IfModule>.) Do NOT set it to On as it
    # prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.
    <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
        <Directory /home/*/public_html>
            php_admin_value engine Off
        </Directory>
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

I had no luck with that, so I commented out the condition and restarted apache. Still no luck.

Back to XAMPP on Windows for developing in PHP, then. Annoying.

Cheers


Peter

[peredur]

As you'll see from the dates, I had this problem months ago and had given up on finding a solution. Today, a propos something else entirely, I ran the following commands:

find /etc/apache2/ -type f -exec sudo chmod 644 {} \;
find /etc/apache2/ -type d -exec sudo chmod 755 {} \;
sudo chown -R root:root /etc/apache2

(For which I claim no credit. They were from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288812. I was adding an alias file and wanted to know what permissions to give it)

PHP is now parsed correctly, so I guess it was a permissions problem that the above has fixed.

Cheers


Peter

[Burigufutsushide]

I ran into this exact problem today and tried the various obvious things like removing and purging the packages and reinstalling. I also tried the permission suggestion by peredur without any effect. But then I accidently stumbled over the community help pages which said

Be sure to clear your browser's cache before testing your site again.

and just by doing this, things suddenly started working properly again.

Hope this can help someone.