Re: Wierd problem - PHP downloads the source

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

2007/9/10, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strange problem with Apache on a new server installation. I
> installed apache2, phpmyadmin and mod-php5 from debs on Debian Etch
> (AMD64 version, if it matters).
>
> When I browse to http://machine/phpmyadmin/index.php, everything works.
> I get the phpmyadmin interface and am offered to log in. Same goes if I
> place a php file in another directory. If, however, I browse to
> http://machine/phpmyadmin, I get a dialog offering me to download a
> file. The content of the file is the actual content of index.php inside
> the phpmyadmin directory. In other words, in some cases (I'm not sure
> which), the index.php gets downloaded instead of executed.
>
> I tried to place an index.php in the root of the documentroot, but it
> never got downloaded, even if I did not refer to it by name.
>
> Anyone has any idea how to solve this problem?

Do you have in httpd.conf or around
DirectoryIndex index.php
or similar? Seems to be so to me in etch, in
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf , but you might have messed this
somehow.
-- 
Didi

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