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I am having trouble using the php module with apache2. At the moment, testing with a phpinfo script, only php code is displayed as though it were text, no output at all.

I have the line LoadModule php5_module libphp5.so, with an absolute path.

Yet, when I do apache2 -t -D DUMP_MODULES |grep php, nothing is reported

I have my error level set to warn, and the last entry in my logfile after apache starts is 

[notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) PHP/5.2.12 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8g configured -- resuming normal operations

Which implies there is php support?

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Try grep -i php. Also do you have AddHandler php5-script .php anywhere in /etc/apache2/*.conf or in the vhost configurations?

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  • I should have said I tried with grep -i....php does not show up as a loaded module even without grep. And yes, I have the Addhandler section(s) - although I just noticed I don't have any ini or conf file specified for php, do I need this for the module?
    – user47587
    Sep 4, 2010 at 22:00
  • stupid question, but have you installed php?
    – James L
    Sep 4, 2010 at 22:02
  • Im trying to set this up on private server host im paying for, so everything is already installed
    – user47587
    Sep 4, 2010 at 22:06
  • Do you have an /etc/apache2/conf.d/php.conf? It might be elsewhere in Ubuntu. There should be something similar to LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so somewhere
    – James L
    Sep 4, 2010 at 22:13
  • The LoadModule line is in my httpd.conf, I can not find any php.conf file.
    – user47587
    Sep 4, 2010 at 22:23
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I had the same problem but it was because CentOS (and I assume RHEL), by default, doesn't recognize the short short tag... 

<?

but requires the long tag... 

<?php

at the beginning of a block of PHP code.

In php.ini (probably /etc/php.ini) look for "short_open_tag = off". Change this to "short_open_tag = on" and restart Apache to allow the short tag.

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Make sure your handler looks like in the first reply and make sure it comes after mod_mime - this is most likely a handler issue:

LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

Mod_mime is required to actually use the handlers. You should get a warning if it can't find mime.types (a dependency of the above module), but you might do a find / -name mime.types and copy this file into your /etc/httpd/conf/ directory.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_mime.html You can make sure it's looking in the right place for the mime types by setting this TypesConfig directory: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_mime.html#typesconfig

You can also see if you have any luck adding these lines:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

(The Type is more important for client requests.)

A simple test to see if you have PHP with mostly defaulted settings, is to go to a nonexistant page on your server thus generating a 404 error. It should tell you at the bottom something along the lines of

Not Found

The requested URL /test was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 PHP/5.2.11

Notice the PHP/5.2.11 in this listing....

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  • When I go to a non existant file, I get an error message, but not the server info. Probably something to do with mod-security. I have added all the handlers as suggested, and php is loaded after mod_mime. Adding the handlers causes the browser to try and download the file rather than display it....but it still doesn't show the output.
    – user47587
    Sep 5, 2010 at 0:37
  • Yea, mod-security usually does make some changes to that. You might try commenting out the loading of the mod_security module and of the .d directories (Include modsecurity.d/* and Include conf.d/*). The downloading of the file is probably due to the AddType. I might have made a mistake, the type might need text/html instead of application.x-httpd-php, but it's a mute point since apache should be passing it to PHP for processing.
    – Joshua Enfield
    Sep 5, 2010 at 1:21

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