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Browser trys to download php files

Hi,

I am a newb to linux, but thought this post should go here...

I have SUSE 9.3, I wanted to setup a local webserver to do some test on running Mambo or something similar...

I have compiled:

MySQL - 4.0.26
Apache - 1.3.34
PHP - 4.4.2

From Source, I know that there maybe newer versions of these available but the HOWTO guide I followed used these version so I used them as well.

Everything complied and installed fine (or so it seems) but when I try and view a local php file (eg php.info) my browser tries to download the file instead of actually viewing it? It also does the same with .html files and .htm files...I don't think it is my browers settings cause I can view these same files on the internet it's just locally that I have these problems

I am sure there some thing wrong with either my php.ini file or my http.conf files...but not sure which one?

I have browsed the net and this site for hours looking for solutions to this but I can't seem to find anybody that has had similar problems on this site...and the links that google give me are mostly broken or deleted.

Is there anybody there that has had the same problem? or know of where the problem lies?

Thanks!

Sorry I should have said, I found some similar instances on the forums but none of the fixes worked for me!

You need to run those files via Apache and view them via a URL (e.g., http://localhost/foo.php ) in order for the browser to receive the proper MIME type definition, and for the PHP to actually be interpreted (run).

Its probably that youre missing the httpd.conf instruction to feed the php pages thru the php parser. Check to see if your conf includes lines like these, they could also be in some other conf file that is included via the httpd.conf:

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php # also nifty but not related to your problem

That is not the issue (Edit: in reference to: the DirectoryIndex, I missed the AddType setting in your post, sorry about that) , because:

Quote:

It also does the same with .html files and .htm files..

Quote:

Sorry I should have said, I found some similar instances on the forums but none of the fixes worked for me!

Did you clear the browser's cache after changing httpd.conf? Try it and see if it works!

The "correct" location to specify the php mime type in SuSE is in /etc/apache2/conf.d/php4.conf (assuming you're running php4). These lines should be present:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

for support for .php, .php3, .php4, and .phps extensions.

Likewise, the DirectoryIndex definitions (for php files) are normally defined in here by default:

DirectoryIndex index.php
DirectoryIndex index.php3
DirectoryIndex index.php4

Browser trys to download php files

Hi Everybody,

Thanks for all the speedy replies! :)

Artanicus, I have these lines in my httpd.conf file both of them actually and no luck....

Egghead, thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately that did help either....

KimVette, i have searched my whole Pc for foo.php and don't have it anywhere, and with regard to your last post, I am not running Apache2, I have apache 1.3 from source and php 4, so there is no /etc/apache2/ directory on my machine...do you think it maybe better to install apache2 (Using yast)?

If so how do I uninstall apache 1.3 if I compiled it from source?

Once again thanks for the replys!

Sp@rticus,
foo.php was just an example KimVette gave.
As KimVette is saying you need to access the php file as URL not as filesystem files. Put the php files in the Document Root, make sure php is enabled\loaded in httpd.conf and then try accessing them as URL.
eg elinks http:\\localhost\test.php

Paste your httpd.conf here so that we can see where your webroot is and if php is enabled or not.

Browser trys to download php files

:p Little embarassed there, misunderstood what KimVette meant...sorry...lol

The thing is I am doing that in my browser (Firefox 1.5) I am typing http://localhost/info.php I have also tried http://127.0.0.1/info.php and no luck...

Here is my httpd.conf file....(I just deleted out all the commented lines to make it smaller)

Code:

ServerType standalone



ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache"





PidFile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid





ScoreBoardFile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.scoreboard





Timeout 300



KeepAlive On



MaxKeepAliveRequests 100



KeepAliveTimeout 15



MinSpareServers 5

MaxSpareServers 10



StartServers 5



MaxClients 150



MaxRequestsPerChild 0



LoadModule env_module        libexec/mod_env.so

LoadModule config_log_module  libexec/mod_log_config.so

LoadModule mime_module        libexec/mod_mime.so

LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/mod_negotiation.so

LoadModule status_module      libexec/mod_status.so

LoadModule includes_module    libexec/mod_include.so

LoadModule autoindex_module  libexec/mod_autoindex.so

LoadModule dir_module        libexec/mod_dir.so

LoadModule cgi_module        libexec/mod_cgi.so

LoadModule asis_module        libexec/mod_asis.so

LoadModule imap_module        libexec/mod_imap.so

LoadModule action_module      libexec/mod_actions.so

LoadModule userdir_module    libexec/mod_userdir.so

LoadModule alias_module      libexec/mod_alias.so

LoadModule rewrite_module    libexec/mod_rewrite.so

LoadModule access_module      libexec/mod_access.so

LoadModule auth_module        libexec/mod_auth.so

LoadModule setenvif_module    libexec/mod_setenvif.so



ClearModuleList

AddModule mod_env.c

AddModule mod_log_config.c

AddModule mod_mime.c

AddModule mod_negotiation.c

AddModule mod_status.c

AddModule mod_include.c

AddModule mod_autoindex.c

AddModule mod_dir.c

AddModule mod_cgi.c

AddModule mod_asis.c

AddModule mod_imap.c

AddModule mod_actions.c

AddModule mod_userdir.c

AddModule mod_alias.c

AddModule mod_rewrite.c

AddModule mod_access.c

AddModule mod_auth.c

AddModule mod_so.c

AddModule mod_setenvif.c



Port 80



User nobody

Group nobody



ServerAdmin (Removed) Do not want my mail address on the net



ServerName 127.0.0.1



DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs"



<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

</Directory>



<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs">



    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews



    AllowOverride None



    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>



<IfModule mod_userdir.c>

    UserDir public_html

</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_dir.c>

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

</IfModule>



AccessFileName .htaccess



<Files ~ "^\.ht">

    Order allow,deny

    Deny from all

    Satisfy All

</Files>



UseCanonicalName On



<IfModule mod_mime.c>

    TypesConfig /usr/local/apache/conf/mime.types

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

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

</IfModule>



DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>

    MIMEMagicFile /usr/local/apache/conf/magic

</IfModule>



HostnameLookups Off



ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log



LogLevel warn



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 /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log common



ServerSignature On



<IfModule mod_alias.c>

    Alias /icons/ "/usr/local/apache/icons/"



    <Directory "/usr/local/apache/icons">

        Options Indexes MultiViews

        AllowOverride None

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>

    Alias /manual/ "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/manual/"



    <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/manual">

        Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews

        AllowOverride None

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/"



    <Directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin">

        AllowOverride None

        Options None

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>



</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>



    IndexOptions FancyIndexing



    AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip



    AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*

    AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*

    AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*

    AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*



    AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe

    AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx

    AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar

    AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv

    AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip

    AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps

    AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf

    AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt

    AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c

    AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py

    AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for

    AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi

    AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu

    AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl

    AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex

    AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core



    AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..

    AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README

    AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^

    AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^



    DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

    ReadmeName README.html

    HeaderName HEADER.html



    IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t



</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_mime.c>



    AddLanguage da .dk

    AddLanguage nl .nl

    AddLanguage en .en

    AddLanguage et .ee

    AddLanguage fr .fr

    AddLanguage de .de

    AddLanguage el .el

    AddLanguage he .he

    AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8

    AddLanguage it .it

    AddLanguage ja .ja

    AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis

    AddLanguage kr .kr

    AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso-kr

    AddLanguage nn .nn

    AddLanguage no .no

    AddLanguage pl .po

    AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso-pl

    AddLanguage pt .pt

    AddLanguage pt-br .pt-br

    AddLanguage ltz .lu

    AddLanguage ca .ca

    AddLanguage es .es

    AddLanguage sv .sv

    AddLanguage cs .cz .cs

    AddLanguage ru .ru

    AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw

    AddCharset Big5        .Big5    .big5

    AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251

    AddCharset CP866        .cp866

    AddCharset ISO-8859-5  .iso-ru

    AddCharset KOI8-R      .koi8-r

    AddCharset UCS-2        .ucs2

    AddCharset UCS-4        .ucs4

    AddCharset UTF-8        .utf8



    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>

        LanguagePriority en da nl et fr de el it ja kr no pl pt pt-br ru ltz ca es sv tw

    </IfModule>



    AddType application/x-tar .tgz

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

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



    AddEncoding x-compress .Z

    AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz



</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>



    BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive

    BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0



    BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0

    BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0

    BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0



</IfModule>

Thanks, sorry for the confusion earlier

Okay strange,now I have not changed anything....and now it displays .html and .htm files fine it's just .php files that can't be read

Browser trys to download php files

OK, I did some further investigations into this and according to some posts on other forums I need to add

Code:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

and

Code:

AddModule mod_php4.c

To my httdp.conf file. So now a new errors arises when I try and start the apche server it comes up with this error:

Code:

Syntax error on line 223 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

Cannot load /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp4.so into server: /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/etc/init.d/apache start: httpd could not be started

:(

I assume that it is trying to find libphp4.so in that particular directory...which I need to change to the directory that it's in, but I cannot find libphp4.so anywhere on my machine?

So my question would now be how do I install it, I have tried YAST but YAST does not find it. I am sure its part of another package, but wich one. Am I even on the right track here?

Thanks

Where did you install php? Cause thats where libphp*.so will be. ITs not always called libphp4/5.php but sometimes just libphp.so a locate for it might reveal the location if your db is up2date, if not updatedb will refreshen it, or you could just do;

Code:

find /usr/ -name "libphp*.so*"

When you find it, symlink it into the place its been looked for:

Code:

ln -s /whree/it/is/libphp.so /usr/local/apache/modules/

btw, you couyld be so lucky that it actually is under the right dir but just with a different name.

Ok thanks, I found it in a weird place, strange that the find command from the command line found it but not from the gui,linked it anyway, althougth I did not have a modules folder I only have a libexec folder, so I linked it to there, and just edit my conf file to show that.

But now it gives me a new error: lol (Suppose now I know why its called trial and error)

Code:

Syntax error on line 223 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: JNI_CreateJavaVM

/etc/init.d/apache start: httpd could not be started

Unless thats not the right libphp4.so file I am beginning to think that I need to maybe recompile php4?

If that is the cause this is the command I used to compile php last time:

Code:

./configure \

--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \

--disable-debug \

--enable-ftp \

--enable-inline-optimization \

--enable-magic-quotes \

--enable-mbstring \

--enable-mm=shared \

--enable-safe-mode \

--enable-track-vars \

--enable-trans-sid \

--enable-wddx=shared \

--enable-xml \

--with-dom \

--with-gd \

--with-gettext \

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \

--with-regex=system \

--with-xml \

--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib

Is this okay, do I need to change something? Or am I jumping to the M$ solution of re-installing to quickly?

Thanks for the help once again

I've compiled apache && php && mysql myself only once, as it took me a year for the first time to get running and everything compatible within the trio.. After that ive used prebuilt packages and never had a problem since.. So, you will surely get off easier if you install Apache and php from YaST. Undefined symbol errors are on of the nastiest, usually the solution is simply: "these two versions are not compatible with each other, try some other combination" .. d:

lol...a year..sheesh..ok maybe your suggestion is right and I need to try it from YAST...but now how do I uninstall my already installed versions...? Do I run
make clean or make uninstall as running man make does not show much help...

Thanks