php Files Not Parsing (Trying to download instead of display)

[roger]

I just set up my account and am in the process of getting things figured out. I uploaded an index.php file to test the server, and it is trying to download the file rather than display it. An html file displays just fine. From my experience setting up servers this usually indicates an error with the httpd.conf file, but it seems to be setup correctly, i.e.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Any other suggestions?

[roger]

So apparently I was trying to upload files to high up on the server, when I uploaded a php file under /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/httpdocs/ and clicked the preview site link it works ok. I apparently confused the public documents shown on Plesk for the web site files.

[arunr]

I installed php5 on ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04 by following the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
I already had apache2 server running on my machine, so I installed only PHP5 and mySQL 5 using

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

(During the installation, the apache2 server I already had on my machine was stopped and re-started.)

I faced the same issue with my php files - they were downloading, instead of being parsed by apache. Googled around and found your post.

Then I followed the guidelines at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQL under section titled 'Checking PHP 5 installation' and did all the testing recommended there.

I tried this command suggested there:

sudo a2enmod php5

and it said "Module php5 already enabled".

Finally I tried re-starting apache2 with the following command:

sudo apache2ctl restart

and PHP started parsing and working fine after that.

So most likely your apache server needs a re-start too!

[suwunk]

Thanks for sharing the solution with us!

I installed php5 on ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04 by following the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
I already had apache2 server running on my machine, so I installed only PHP5 and mySQL 5 using

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

(During the installation, the apache2 server I already had on my machine was stopped and re-started.)

I faced the same issue with my php files - they were downloading, instead of being parsed by apache. Googled around and found your post.

Then I followed the guidelines at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQL under section titled 'Checking PHP 5 installation' and did all the testing recommended there.

I tried this command suggested there:

sudo a2enmod php5

and it said "Module php5 already enabled".

Finally I tried re-starting apache2 with the following command:

sudo apache2ctl restart

and PHP started parsing and working fine after that.

So most likely your apache server needs a re-start too!