[SOLVED] PHP prompts to save - Apache2

[myth01]

A few things:
1. This is my first attempt at running a webserver
2. I've googled this problem for nearly 3 hours (today, and many more yesterday), and found lots on the subject, but nothing that helped.

I've managed to install apache2, php5 and mysql on ubuntu. Normal html pages are served properly, but php pages prompt to save rather than run.

I've followed the instructions from here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...Using%20Apache

including the "if php doesnt work" bit but the situation doesn't change.

I'm guessing its a config problem somewhere but have no idea where to start.

[cariboo]

Usually when you have a problem like that it is an ownership or permissions issue. Any file located in /var/www should only be owned by root or www-data and have permissions of 755.

Jim

[jamesrfla]

This is how I got my server to work. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=844409

[cdenley]

So you did all this?

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo a2enmod php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

What do the logs show after a request for a php script?

tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
tail /var/log/apache2/access.log

[myth01]

cheers guys for your replies.

in /var/www i did this:

sudo chown root:root test.php

and cleared my browser cache, tried test.php (the phpinfo test page) again and it is still prompting to save.

aah!

[myth01]

cdenley:

at the terminal i did:

sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

ill check the logs now....

[cdenley]

cdenley:

at the terminal i did:

sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

ill check the logs now....

In addition to the other commands I posted, correct?

[myth01]

oops, sorry, yep, a2enmod php5 returned 'This module is already enabled' and I restarted apache.

the last entry in errors.log was nearly 2 hours ago, and access.log shows:

127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:20:49 +0100] "POST /submit.php HTTP/1.1" 200 931 "http://localhost/form.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Oct/2008:22:26:47 +0100] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"

[myth01]

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please help! I do not have much hair left to pull out....

[kaivalagi]

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please help! I do not have much hair left to pull out....

If you've done all the necessary already posted it should work, can you try the following, on the off chance it will sort things out:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Hope that helps