browser downloads php file from apache web server

Question

I have an apache web server. Let\'s say this server\'s domain is example.com.

When I access example.com, then the index.php file is co

Answer 1

If you are on Debian/Ubuntu take a look at this file /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf

mine looks like this and you can see I had to comment some line to get PHP working in the user dir

    
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    
    
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
    
    
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
    
    # To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines
    # (from  to .) Do NOT set it to On as it
    # prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.
    #
    #    
    #        php_admin_value engine Off
    #    
    #

Please note that after editing the file you would have to restart apache for the modifications to take effect, the command to restart apache on a debian based system is: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart