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After moving PHP files to /var/www they no longer are seen as hosted php files

I hope I have the right forum. I also did some googling beforehand, but I didn't find anything that helped me.

I am setting up a Demo website that I am hosting in a Debian Lenny VM, I have installed Apache, mySQL, and PHP5 I know the php server is working because if I place an info php file I can see it in the browser. However, I downloaded phpfusion, as well as phpmyadmin and they are on my desktop, I open a superuser file browser (also added write access to /var/www to everybody and copied the files over as me) and copied over the files. Once in the www folder they are no longer seen as "valid" php files, if I try to access them with iceweasel, IE, Konquerer it asks me if I want to download the file. If I look at the files on my desktop they have different icons. I have attached a screenshot. I can't tell what the difference is, but obviously there is one otherwise the icons wouldn't be different. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here or a way to rectify it? I have done things like this before without issue, I've never seen this problem.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Screen shots of file browsers don't provide very useful information.

Please post the output of:

Code:

ls -l /var/www

Different themes probably have different icons.... file browsers should be avoided when trying to do real work.

Also, please check your apache logs.

Evo2.

What does your apache configuration look like?

Here is the ls -l /var/www output. I understand different themes and different DE will use different icons, however, notice that in the left windows all the files have the php icon, in the second with a different theme, one of the documents has the same icon but all the others have gone into like a text document preview mode. I will take a look at my apache config and post it as well in a proceeding post. I have never had an issue like this before.

Code:

MIS-002-Debian:/home/scheidel21# ls -l /var/www

total 3256

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1349 2010-02-24 11:11 about.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1349 2010-02-24 11:09 about.html~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1139 2010-02-23 16:05 About.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    767 2010-02-23 15:49 About.html~

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  121168 2010-02-24 10:02 AboutUs.jpg

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1679532 2010-02-19 10:18 anim.gif

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1064714 2010-02-16 16:49 anim-old.gif

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1345 2010-02-24 13:51 asg.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1345 2010-02-24 13:52 ASG.html

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  84314 2010-02-24 12:44 ASG.jpg

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root    800 1999-12-29 17:17 black.gif

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root    800 1999-12-29 17:17 blue.gif

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1686 2010-02-24 15:23 events.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1682 2010-02-24 14:07 events.html~

drwxr-xr-x 9 root root    4096 2010-01-11 04:27 files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    718 2010-02-19 13:37 HESCO.map~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    711 2010-02-19 14:00 HESCOMAP.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    711 2010-02-19 13:57 HESCOMAP.html~

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2010-01-28 22:08 htdig

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    133 2010-02-17 16:38 image.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    111 2010-02-17 16:35 image.html~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1909 2010-02-24 10:43 index2.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1880 2010-02-23 16:30 index2.html~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      45 2010-02-15 13:20 index.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      19 2010-02-25 13:50 info.php

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      2 2010-02-25 13:49 info.php~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    671 2010-02-19 13:38 Portal.map

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1346 2010-02-24 13:46 prod.html

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  89002 2010-02-24 12:13 Prod.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1351 2010-02-24 13:50 resources.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1346 2010-02-24 13:49 resources.html~

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  78557 2010-02-24 13:02 Resources.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1350 2010-02-24 13:56 serv.html

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  53326 2010-02-24 12:30 Services.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    111 2010-02-17 16:33 Test~

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2976 2010-02-17 16:34 Test.html

oops also here is ls -l output for the php directory.

Code:

MIS-002-Debian:/home/scheidel21# ls -l /var/www/files

total 372

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 2010-01-12 09:01 administration

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6474 2009-08-01 06:58 articles.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 2008-03-18 17:45 _config.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4869 2009-03-26 17:28 contact.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5681 2008-07-22 21:39 downloads.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6488 2008-06-23 13:34 edit_profile.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3303 2008-07-22 21:39 faq.php

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 forum

drwxr-xr-x  9 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 images

drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 includes

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  865 2008-04-04 17:46 index.php

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 infusions

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 locale

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2952 2008-11-27 15:44 login.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4323 2009-08-01 06:58 lostpassword.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 30879 2009-12-11 10:22 maincore.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3031 2009-11-08 10:28 maintenance.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3850 2008-05-23 16:24 members.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 30755 2008-12-29 17:34 messages.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5991 2008-06-16 21:41 news_cats.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11021 2008-10-13 01:50 news.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 13461 2008-11-27 03:07 photogallery.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  9571 2009-08-01 06:58 photo.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  7404 2008-07-01 16:03 print.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 10878 2009-03-26 17:43 profile.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  961 2008-04-21 13:02 readarticle.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 13860 2009-08-01 06:58 register.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 15131 2009-08-01 06:58 search.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 72108 2009-12-07 07:22 setup.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3790 2008-07-22 21:39 setuser.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2926 2008-04-24 16:49 showphoto.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 17050 2008-12-27 14:12 submit.php

drwxr-xr-x 13 root root  4096 2010-01-11 04:27 themes

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2741 2009-01-13 07:37 viewpage.php

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4938 2008-06-20 10:30 weblinks.php

here is the apache2.conf file (I have added nothing in the httpd.conf file)

Code:

ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"

LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock

PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}

Timeout 300

KeepAlive On

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 15

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>

    StartServers          5

    MinSpareServers      5

    MaxSpareServers      10

    MaxClients          150

    MaxRequestsPerChild  0

</IfModule>



<IfModule mpm_worker_module>

    StartServers          2

    MaxClients          150

    MinSpareThreads      25

    MaxSpareThreads      75 

    ThreadsPerChild      25

    MaxRequestsPerChild  0

</IfModule>



User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}

AccessFileName .htaccess



<Files ~ "^\.ht">

    Order allow,deny

    Deny from all

</Files>



DefaultType text/plain

HostnameLookups Off

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

LogLevel warn



# Include module configuration:

Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load

Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.conf



# Include all the user configurations:

Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf



# Include ports listing

Include /etc/apache2/ports.conf



LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer

LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent





CustomLog /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log vhost_combined

Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/



Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

The php5.conf and .load files from the active mod directory

Code:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3

  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

</IfModule>



now the .load

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

The libphp5.so file is where the path says it is in the load file

Scratching my head...

The icons are irrelevant, perl scripts looks like that on my system. Or bash scripts.

What's in /etc/apache2/conf.d/
and in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

If the directory isn't set up correctly it won't serve php from it.
is this in httpd.conf too ?

Code:

AddType text/html php

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3

You don't seem to have a info.php file in the files directory, have you tried it ?

If you're worried about that _config file, delete it and copy a new one over.

Those configuration lines are in files in the conf.d directory. But now the plot thickens. I haven't done anything to the system but now I can't even access anything, I get a 403 forbidden trying to access anything in a browser.

you need to make a config for your php site and put it in /etc/apache2/sites-available/
then symlink it to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

an example of a config would be /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

you can take that site and modify it then rename it to whatever then symlink it from /etc/apache2/sites-available/newsite to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/newsite

It wasn't a new site it was part of the demo site I was putting together. But after I played with permissions and they all seemed to be ok, but I still got a 403 forbidden access error on every page I tried to access I just reinstalled the VM and none of these problems are occuring now. Thank you all for the help you provided though.