How to configure Apache to process PHPs in Alias

Question

I've configured my Apache with an alias to another directory in the httpd.conf like this:

Alias <a_dir> "<full path>"

This works fine for regular HTML documents like <a_dir>/home.html, but PHP-files like <a_dir>/script.php are not processed on the server (i.e. servered to the browser as a regular text-file).

As far as I can tell, PHP is properly installed - in the "normal" directory the files are processed. I've tried to also include a ScriptAlias, but that didn't change anything.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Can you provide any error messages you're seeing in /var/log/apache2/access.log(or whatever path you're using)? I have just tried this on my ubuntu maverick box with the following:

Alias /a_dir/ "/home/USERNAME/phptest/index.php"

my index.php contains simply:

<?php
phpinfo()
?>

Let me have a look at the errors and access logs and should be able to know more

Answer 2

The alias was workking fine, it seems that I needed the following lines in my config:

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

With this, the php-file is properly processed. I'm not sure why php-files in another directory worked fine without it, but it looks like everything is working now.