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Thread ID: 84751 2007-11-16 22:40:00 Problem Viewing Local PHP files CaptinMoor (8392) Press F1
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612168 2007-11-16 22:40:00 Hi there guys and girls, well I have a bit of a problem . When trying to view . PHP files that I have hosted on my local server I cannot view them . Both Firefox and IE try to download these files .

When I do in fact download them and then view by selecting the application (Firefox or IE) the browser window opens and then just keeps opening more and more and more pages .

I have had a pretty decent search on google but have not found anything that can resolve this problem .

I think that this is more than likely a configuration problem with the Ubuntu Server that I am running . However I cannot be sure .

Here is the version of Apache2 that I am running

Server version: Apache/2 . 0 . 55
Server built: Aug 16 2007 22:27:29
Server's Module Magic Number: 20020903:11
Architecture: 32-bit
Server compiled with . . . .
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D HTTPD_ROOT=""
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/lib/apache2/suexec2"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/var/run/apache2 . pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/var/run/apache2/accept . lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/mime . types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/apache2 . conf"

Also you can try viewing the PHP pages for yourself by visiting my server . This is located at 58 . 28 . 158 . 178 .

The main files that I am having problems with are:

mydnsconfig/ 17-Nov-2007 11:12 -
php/ 17-Nov-2007 10:50 -
phpmyadmin/ 08-May-2006 23:57 -


Any help would be greatly appreciated .

Cheers

Captin ;) 		CaptinMoor (8392)
612169 2007-11-16 23:04:00 This may sound like a silly question but have you got PHP installed on your web server?? (if you haven’t you will need to download php from http://nz.php.net/ & install it) stu161204 (123)
612170 2007-11-16 23:45:00 This may sound like a silly question but have you got PHP installed on your web server?? (if you haven’t you will need to download php from http://nz.php.net/ & install it)

There is never a silly question. Only silly answers. Anway Yeah, I have got it installed. I installed it when I built the server. However had to go and make sure it was all working still though.

Good question, any other ideas?? 		CaptinMoor (8392)
612171 2007-11-17 01:14:00 Document structure elements?

i.e.,


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD... etc

That stuff is essential, and tells the browser how the file should be displayed. 		vinref (6194)
612172 2007-11-18 09:36:00 Your web browser will decide what to do with a document based on the MIME type sent back by the server. If you are getting the download box then the server is probably sending the PHP source document as a binary/unknown file (application/octet-stream). Try saving the downloading file - if the saved file is the PHP code then you will need to make the server run them as CGI scripts instead of treating them as ordinary files. TGoddard (7263)
612173 2007-11-18 18:11:00 Probably a dumb question but do you have your addtype or addhandler set for php

have a look in your apache httpd.conf is there a handler in there that mentions php?

something like




AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml



I had a similar problem years ago and it was because my PHP wasn't set up correctly, i had to add something to my httpd.conf

This thread should help (www.webmasterworld.com) 		Morgenmuffel (187)
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