PHP not working - Won't parse code?

[bdrexler]

I'm having the same problem. I've been banging my head against the wall for the last 36 hours... PHP will not parse the files, I'm just getting a "download" notification from the browser.

[jledhead]

so does this file exist libphp5.so and is it located or symlinked in the apache modules directory?

[marco75]

Change /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

append entries to DirectoryIndex:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.cgi index.pl index.html index.htm index.shtml index.phtml

add the line somewhere:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

If httpd does not have php compiled in, you might need to add the following to the LoadModule block:

LoadModule php5_module path/to/your/php/module

on FC5, this would be

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

Remember that the path is relative to the ServerRoot defined at the beginning of the httpd.conf. In my case, ServerRoot "/etc/httpd".
Other distros will have webexec/libphp5.so, and/or require

AddModule mod_php5.c

underneath. Just have a look at the other entries in httpd.conf.

I have reported this omission to Fedora bugzilla, hopefully future updates will run PHP out of the box. There's probably some twisted security ******** reason why they disabled it. Some Linux people seem to have the philosophy that broken = secure, I reckon a Apache server without PHP support... is useless. Most of the web runs on PHP code now. Jeez.