PHP not working in RH8

**Pleiades** · 02-16-2003, 02:29 PM

I've just installed RH8, with Apache 2.0 and PHP 4.2. Apache works fine, but PHP doesn't appear to be doing anything at all. I've dropped a page called phpinfo.php with the following code:

Code:

&lt;?php
phpinfo;
?&gt;

but i get a blank page. Viewing the source of the page shows code above. I have more complicated pages, with results of db queries being displayed, and these are broken on this webserver too. They work fine on the old Apache 1.3/PHP 4.1 server. Any ideas as to why I am able to view php pages, but only able to see html code on such pages, and not the php code? My /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf file is below, and I have checked that the libphp4.so file is where it should be.

Code:

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter handle files with a .php extension.
#
&lt;Files *.php&gt;
    SetOutputFilter PHP
    SetInputFilter PHP
    LimitRequestBody 524288
&lt;/Files&gt;

#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php

**ph34r** · 02-18-2003, 05:29 PM

<?php
phpinfo;
?>

should be

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Note the () after phpinfo

**kornp** · 02-19-2003, 04:01 AM

Check your httpd.conf file, i'm not sure where it is in RH, but it should have all of the following lines in it somewhere:

Code:

AddModule mod_php4.c

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3

and if you want apache to direct to index.php as well as index.html, add

Code:

&lt;IfModule mod_dir.c&gt;
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
&lt;/IfModule&gt;

With that in there it should work, although after editing the text file you will need to restart apache.

**Pleiades** · 02-19-2003, 10:04 AM

ph34r - oops, that was a typo, in the post. I had the "()" in the script.

PK - Not 100% on this, but my understanding is that in Apache 2.0, all this stuff goes in the .conf files in /path_to_apache/conf.d/ . httpd.conf has a line "Include ../conf.d/*.conf" or similar.

I'm struggling with Bind 9 at the mome, but am going to attempt to build these from source, see what happens.

Thanks,

David.

**kornp** · 02-19-2003, 11:30 PM

[quote author=Pleiades link=board=4;threadid=6381;start=0#60396 date=1045649065]
PK - Not 100% on this, but my understanding is that in Apache 2.0, all this stuff goes in the .conf files in /path_to_apache/conf.d/ . httpd.conf has a line "Include ../conf.d/*.conf" or similar.
[/quote]

Could be wrong, but i would guess that that's a RH thing, not an apache 2 thing, they tend to like to change config files i have found

do make sure that those lines are somehow getting included somehow though, how they are included shouldn't really matter.

**Pleiades** · 02-24-2003, 01:17 PM

Thanks for the replies on this, guys.

I had to rebuild the machine a couple of times (for various complicated and valid reasons :-\ ), and when I put it back to RH8, PHP worked a treat.

David