application/x-httpd-php download
 

Hello all,

When I try to access my site at www.mysite.com, I get this error message "application/x-httpd-php download" The browser tries to download a file instead of accessing the site. Does anyone know what the problem would be? Thank you

Hi,

You didn't mention your distro and how you've installed php.
Anyway the error you get means that apache is not aware of php. Check apache config file and see if you have the following 2 lines:
Regards

I have Centos 6.3 64bit with Parallel Plesk installed on a dedicated server from 1 & 1 Internet service provider. Before I did not have this problem. One time the website had problem, I had to backup, bring it down, upload the script and install the site without any problem. But now I get that message. I added this LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php at the bottom of the php.ini file and restated the httpd but still get the same problem.

You are supposed to add those 2 lines in apache configuration file(s), not in php.ini!!!
For a default php installation on Centos those lines are included in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf, but I don't know if Plesk changes that. You can search under /etc/httpd/conf and /etc/httpd/conf.d to see if they exist.

Regards