php files not recognized in browser

[Franco Saliola]

On 5/13/05, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>     But that will not help if the URL is entered in the browser as:
>     /home/amaynard/share/private_html/php/hello.php. The browser will
>     read the file directly and not use the web server.
> 
>     The correct way to have Apache interpret the file is to put it in
>     your public_html directory (if that's how you have Apache set up)
>     and call it as: http://localhost/~amaynard/php/hello.php.

I second this suggestion. Make sure you are pointing the browser to
the URL and not the file.

Franco

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On 5/13/05, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> 
> > Other respondents have been telling you that it is apache that should be
> > interpreting PHP files, so that's covered.  Things to look for:
> >
> > In httpd.conf:
> >
> > DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
> >                                    ^^^^^^^^^
> > Remind the server that these files are acceptable as index files when a
> > directory is requested.
> >
> > In modules.conf:
> >
> > LoadModule php?_module /path/to/libphp?
> >
> > That's all I ever had to do.
> 
>     But that will not help if the URL is entered in the browser as:
>     /home/amaynard/share/private_html/php/hello.php. The browser will
>     read the file directly and not use the web server.
> 
>     The correct way to have Apache interpret the file is to put it in
>     your public_html directory (if that's how you have Apache set up)
>     and call it as: http://localhost/~amaynard/php/hello.php.
> 
>     I went through a similar situation with shtml files. When I put the
>     files on a remote server, everything was fine. When I accessed it
>     locally, the file was empty; all the contant was in included files.
>     Once I used http:, all was fine.
> 
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