[arch-general] New install configuring php - only get text - feeling stupid -- help!

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:59 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I can't believe this. On my new arch install on my laptop, I'm finally getting
> around to configuring the web server and I am having trouble with php. When I
> try and access a php page, all I get is the text of the script echoed to the
> browser. I have heard about this happening before and I think I have even
> fixed it before, but I can't for the life of me remember how? I've been
> through the wiki at:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP
>
> I have the following loaded:
>
> php 5.3.1-2
> php-apache 5.3.1-2
> php-curl 5.3.1-2
> php-docs 5.3.0-1
> php-enchant 5.3.1-2
> php-gd 5.3.1-2
> php-gmp 5.3.1-2
> php-intl 5.3.1-2
> php-ldap 5.3.1-2
> php-mcrypt 5.3.1-2
> php-odbc 5.3.1-2
> php-pear 5.3.1-2
> php-pgsql 5.3.1-2
> php-pspell 5.3.1-2
> php-snmp 5.3.1-2
> php-sqlite 5.3.1-2
> php-tidy 5.3.1-2
> php-xsl 5.3.1-2
>
> My php config in httpd.conf is:
>
> LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
>    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
> Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf
>
> I've configured php and php works from the command line just fine and will
> dump phpinfo() to a terminal, but from my browser pointed at:
>
> http://localhost/dcr/phpinfo.php
>
> all I get is: "<?php phpinfo(); ?>"  (no quotes) which is nothing more than
> the content of my test script. I have also configured php.ini with the proper:
>
> open_basedir =.:/srv/http:/usr/share/pear:/home:/tmp:/var/lib/egroupware
> <snip>
>
> include_path =
> ".:/srv/http/secure:/srv/http/htdocs:/srv/http/dl:/usr/share/pear:/srv/http"
>
> to accomadate the php include and defined the directory to /dcr. In fact I can
> browse /dcr just fine, but clicking on the phpinfo() script just returns the
> text of the script like all my other pages.
>
> What's the trick?
>
> (yes, I've stopped and restarted httpd...)

The only thing I can think of is that you've placed the Include line
before the other LoadModule directives. If you look at
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/php5_module.conf, it checks if mod_dir (and
mod_php) is loaded before applying its directives.