You previously marked this answer as accepted. Are you sure you want to unaccept it? DigitalOcean home. Community Control Panel. Hacktoberfest Contribute to Open Source. Posted July 18, I set cgi. Add a comment. Subscribe Subscribed. I had same issue. Anyone can help us? Tell me what happens. Submit an Answer Submit an answer. Reply Report. Hey Folks, just ran into this myself working with Wordpress.
This is normally due to an improper handler code. In the. If it does not, the php files may try to download instead of process. For the PHP code to be accessible by people who visit your website, the server would have to be configured to display it as text instead of processing it as PHP code. You need to configure apache so that it will start the php interpreter when a.
This needs to be done in httpd. Why is Apache downloading PHP files instead of displaying them? If you are prompted to download a. Turns out files shouldn't be stored in mods-enabled , but should rather be stored in mods-available.
A symlink should then be created in mods-enabled pointing to the file stored in mods-available. Regarding the suggestion above that you should tell the browser that you are outputting a PHP script: It seemed like an unusual idea to me. I googled it and found that there is quite a bit of discussion about it on the web.
If Your. This might be happening due to the missing modules required for your php. Assuming you have php7 installed, search available php7 modules using. Above command will list all available PHP7 modules for installation.
You can begin installation of modules like,. I have the same problem. Apache doesn't load php files from a certain website, just downloaded it. I read this post and the answers and I have seen I've got this line into the last place of the.
After updating PHP to 7. I previously has a similar issue, after upgrading from 5. I spent two days tracking this and found out that I was putting my PHP scripts in the wrong directory. I just started PHP work, so I don't know if my solution relates to the version change you went through. I had this problem. It turned out that I had both nginx and apache installed and automatically starting on boot. The problem was that nginx was binding to the http port first which prevented apache from starting.
It's also possible that you have nginx running but your php is set up to run with apache. To verify, run service nginx status and service apache2 status to see which is running. In the case that nginx is running and apache is not, just run sudo service nginx stop; sudo service apache2 start and your server will now serve php files as expected.
I know that there are 1. So I figured that I would add the solution to my problem here. If I commented these two lines out in my. I have no idea what they do or how they got there, - but it is in every one of my. I have VirtualMin installed on an Ubuntu I upgraded to PHP version 7. I got the error that his post talks about: For every site on my VPS, it simply downloaded the index. I had a similar problem to the OP when upgrading php5 from an older version, to 5.
I'm running a LAMP setup on a machine on my local network, which I use to preview changes to websites before I upload those changes to the actual live server.
So I maintain a perfect local mirror of the actual site. After the upgrade, files which run and display perfectly on the actual site would not display, or would only display html on the local machine. PHP was not parsed. The phpinfo command worked, so I knew php was otherwise working. The log generated no errors. Viewing the page source showed me the actual php code. This worked. I got this kind of problem. This is how I solve it.
Different type of PHP versions installed to my computer. Then I remove some PHP packages from my previous list, using apt-get purge. For people who have found this post from Google almost 6 years in the future and beyond! Another possible cause of this problem could be that you are trying to run the script in a "user directory" from the the UserDir module.
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