The configuration file /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf controls which files Apache recognizes as php scripts (based on their extensions).
Be default (in PHP 5.3.2), the file contains the following code:
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
This affects files with the following extensions:
From our discussion in chat, I know that your files have a html extension. The server was configured to treat .html files as php files, but your home computer is not. That leaves you with two options:
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2 years ago
I have L-Ubuntu 11.04. I've installed Apache2 and I'm trying to simulate a server on my local file system by navigating to
localhostin the browser.The problem is that I can't seem to get php to execute when on localhost. The PHP code is simply printed in the browser (instead of being executed and the result being printed).
libapache2-mod-php5is installed and the latest version.How can I get PHP to run on localhost?