I am running Apache 2.4 on Redhat 7.2, I have also installed PHP 5.6.

I created a vhosts file for a site

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ex1.mysite.com
ServerName ex1.mysite.com
ErrorLog logs/ex1.mysite.com-error-log
CustomLog logs/ex1.mysite.com-access_log common
<Directory /var/www/html/ex1.mysite.com>
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
I am able to view index.html in my browser, however when I attempt to load a PHP file, I get a message "File Not Found". I am able to view a PHP file in the default location (var/www/html).

Is there a way to get PHP working in a virtual host?

Since you can view php pages in docroot, you should be able to also view php in the subdirectory /var/www/html/ex1.mysite.com
Perhaps you did a typo giving the "Not Found" error. Check the apache error_log (ex1.mysite.com-error-log) to see what you get from it.

Regards

Thanks bathory, I am not doing a typo, I have setup a few virtual hosts to test and the html files work fine.

I get this error from the log

"AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown"

For some reason, apache seems not to recognise the php files in the virtual host directories. Strange.

Huh, this error means that you're running php-fpm and not as the common apache module.
If that's the case, you need to add the code you're using to call the php-fpm script in the main httpd.conf (ProxyMatch or SetHandler), into the vhost stanza too.

Thanks for the reply.

The guide I used was

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsuppor...apache-rhel72/

So, I am using this in the httpd.conf

ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/var/www/html/$1

And in the vhost

<Directory /path/to/blog/public>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler None
ForceType text/plain
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch \.phps$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>


I still have the same issue, I guess I have done something wrong

I am now using this in my vhost

<FilesMatch \.php$>
# 2.4.10+ can proxy to unix socket
# SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/"

# Else we can just use a tcp socket:
SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000"
</FilesMatch>


and this in my httpd.conf

ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/var/www/html/mysite.com/$1

this works, must I add a new line to my httpd.conf for each vhost?

Well ideally you should have each site having a separate PHP-FPM pool per vhost with permissions segregating the sites out for PHP-FPM... but you could put it down as 'server config' and then it should apply to all vhosts automatically I believe: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mo...tml#sethandler

No, if you add it in the global httpd.conf i't available everywhere, so you don't need to add it in ever vhost configuration too.
BTW you could use a third party repo in order to install php-5.6 as a DSO for apache (e.g. https://webtatic.com/packages/php56/)

mod_php/DSO is horrible tho and should be avoided. It causes apache to consume memory and limits you to MPM-prefork or MPM-ITK, both of which have the performance of a drunken slug. PHP-FPM actually gives a significant performance improvement and doesn't bloat the size of every apache thread to elephant like proportions.