Hi!

first i've installed mysql on my debian 3.0 server.
that works.
now i installed apache 1.3.26 and php3.

how can i configure apache with php?

when i try to open the index.php file in a client-browser, i get a request on saving or opening the file, but the browser don't open the file.

the message looks something like this:

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you have chosen to download a file of type: application/x-httpd-php from
http://servername/foobar/

what should mozilla do with this file?
+open using ...
+save to disk
-----------------------------------------------------------


thanks a lot in advance,

tom

Did you isntall apache from source? If so you have to compile PHP support into it. Do:

./configure --help

to see what the php option is. If its something like --enable-php then you would do:

./configure --enable-php

i installed apache with

apt-get install apache

from the debian package.

./configure don't work here.
thank you for any suggestion.

tom

Maybe you don't have the php modules in your httpd.conf file.

Could be a number of things. Those pointed out below are good options, you also might not have .php configured as a page that can be served by apache, and so it thinks it's a download (Ie. I don't know what to do with this page).

That would be a missing 'add-handler' option.

To be honest, there are *so* many things that could have gone wrong here you're best off just running down the list of 'what you need to do' when compiling / configuring the above applications.

A quick search on Freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net) for 'apache php mysql' reveals this page which is awesomely helpful

http://freshmeat.net/projects/apache.../?topic_id=905

Slick.

There are a few things you will want to check.

In your httpd.conf file, do you have and types defined?
ie
Including the mod_php.conf?
Is mod_php.conf setup correctly?

Unfortunately this is just one of many, many ways to setup apache to use PHP as SlickWilly pointed out.