PHP file won't open in browser, only download

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

I can't get .php files to run on my server. For example, I created a test file entitled "test.php" with the following content (only):

 

When I try to open this or other php files through a web browser, it tries to download them rather than run them. Responses to similar questions suggest that this issue means the server isn't set up to run php. I looked up how to enable php on the server and found that I am supposed to uncomment the line

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

in the httpd.conf in the etc/apache2 directory. However, when I checked that file, the above line was already uncommented. Is there some other thing I need to change to make php work correctly?

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manpreet 2 years ago

You also need to add the handler for the PHP extension, so that the scripts are actually handled by the PHP module.

AddHandler php5-script .php

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