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Posted by SuperSub, 06-29-2008, 06:43 AM
Hey guys, Yesterday I was told by my hosting provider that my machine was at kernel panic, so they restarted it and I restarted my webserver (Apache). I created a sub folder as I wanted to install a PHP script, so I created the folder using FTP and uploaded all of the script files. The problem is, when I now visit that URL, my browser is asking me to download the .php file instead of the webserver executing it: http://64.22.118.150/bhangra/ My web host said this: it sounds like you aren't loading your php module library in your apache.conf and/or not associating the .php extension. but I have no clue howto fix this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
Posted by tajidyakub, 06-29-2008, 06:48 AM
Check the configuration and try to rebuild your apache, you could do this through WHM (easyapache).
Posted by Steve_Arm, 06-29-2008, 06:49 AM
You need to add this: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php somewhere in your httpd.conf file.
Posted by SuperSub, 06-29-2008, 07:18 AM
Steve, I tried this but it is still not working. The steps I took: Opened PuTTY and logged in. cd /usr/local/apache/conf/ cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.bak pico httpd.conf I added the line, saved and exited. Logged into WHM and restarted the webserver. Double checked I had saved httpd.conf file, I had. Funny thing is, that it recognises my .php files in root, example this works: http://64.22.118.150/contact.php But nothing in my subfolder works Any other ideas? Last edited by SuperSub; 06-29-2008 at 07:21 AM.
Posted by synapse, 06-29-2008, 12:55 PM
Hello, What operating system is this? Was apache installed from a package (yum install, apt-get install, etc) or from source?
Posted by activelobby4u, 06-29-2008, 01:08 PM
In addition confirm whether there is any htaccess effect in bhangra directory. try mv .htaccess htaccess.bak if there is one existing

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