Hi:
Iam using fedora 5 as a hosted server with apache 2 and php 5, and when iam opening the webpage and point the browser to a php file it doesnt read php and this error displayed:
<?php
include ("../lib/defines.php");
include ("../lib/smarty.php");

$smarty->assign("error", $_GET["error"]);

$smarty->display('index.tpl');

?>
can any one help me with this.

The displayed content is not an error, but the exact script as requested in the URL. The problem is that the script should have been executed, and not displayed as a text file.

Either PHP is not installed for Apache (not very likely, though) or Apache needs to be restarted for some reason by running as root:
# /etc/init.d httpd restart

Can also be a configuration problem in httpd.conf by not having the .php extension associated with php.

A strange situation actually, because Apache and PHP usually run out of the box on Fedora.

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