Question

php programs don't execute

Asked by: IT79637

Hi,
I'm sorry for these questions.  They are obvious rookie problem.

I installed apache2 and php5 on ubuntu 7.10 using instructions at: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_server_ubuntu7.10_p6.
Per instructions, I made the following change to /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf as follows:
 
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
commented out-->>>          #DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml  
added this line -->>>          DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php3 index.pl index.xhtml    
</IfModule>

1. When I try to execute a php program, such as phpinfo.php, apache2 wants to save the program to disk instead of executing it?

2. How to I change my DocumentRoot FROM: /var/www/apache2-default/   TO: /var/www?

3. The apache2 throws the following message when it starts:

      * Starting web server apache2
      apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName  [ OK ]

      Can I fix what's this irritating message?


Could someone please shed some expertise on the 3 issues.

I'm assigning 300 points since I have 3 questions.

Thanks much!!



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Asked On
2008-01-09 at 17:36:54ID23071510
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apache2/php5

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PHP Installation

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Answers

 

by: IT79637Posted on 2008-01-09 at 17:55:05ID: 20624280

More info...

File /etc/apache2/httpd.conf is empty.

File /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default contains:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	
	DocumentRoot /var/www/
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
		# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
	</Directory>
 
	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
 
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
 
	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn
 
	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On
 
    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
 
</VirtualHost>

                                              
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by: JB04Posted on 2008-01-10 at 05:11:21ID: 20626790

Do you have the following line in your apache config file?

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3


This is usually the problem when .php file are  being offered for download.


 

by: giltjrPosted on 2008-01-10 at 05:51:44ID: 20627061

1) PHP:

In addition to the AddType you need to verify that you have:

# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php


Normally under Linux these directives are included in a file called php.conf that is put in one of the directories that is included in the Apache setup.

2) Either setup a virtual host, as you seem to have done and code the directive DocumentRoot and point it to /var/www or if you don't want to do VirtualHosting find the DocumentRoot statement and change it.

3) Can't reliably reslove host name:

In one of your httpd conf files look for the directive "ServerName"  and code the IP host name of the box you are running Apache on.

 

by: IT79637Posted on 2008-01-11 at 10:26:46ID: 31420329

Thanks much for your help.
Cheers.

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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