Index.php wants to download instead of...

[ccreighton]

index.php wants to download instead of showing as a webpage.

Any ideas?

[fullroast]

ccreighton - I had the same problem. thaphantom's suggestion fixed it for me.

[Mike Peel]

I'm currently having a similar problem. PHP files download rather than load normally, and at the domain name I just get the message "There is no website configured at this address." Have recompiled Apache through whm several times, getting an error message saying that php can't find "//bin" (apparently a config error, although I don't know where the config would be...). I then updated cpanel, and again compiled apache through it with the same results. Using easyapache as described above has no effect. Any ideas, anyone...?

[GufyMike]

GOt one MIME types check and make sure the .php extension is set right

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html <-- Aapche docs


Under the <module mod_mime.c>

Make sure these are in your httpd.conf file
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

[Mike Peel]

The nice support people at my host managed to solve my problem - basically the line "NameVirtualHost sharedip" was missing from my httpd... No ideas why cpanel decided to drop that line from the config file... Wierd.

[PanelGuy]

ccreighton - I had the same problem. thaphantom's suggestion fixed it for me.

What was The Phantom's Suggestion?

[aby]

Are you sure that the apache is started with the php module enabled in the httpd.conf?

[PanelGuy]

I'm positive it wasn't. PHP is setup as a CGI on the server in question.