Loading a PHP file in Chrome displays PHP codes

Question

The Problem:
Exactly as it says. My phpinfo.php file contains the following:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

The file itself is located in /var/www/html/info.php.

What I did (prior to the problem):
I erased all installations of PHP, oci8, and what not. I'm not sure if I did a good job - basically, I typed in yum history and then undid every install relating to PHP.

This was so I could have a clean system (supposedly), before trying all the PHP stuff again, without resorting to a reformat - I had Oracle 11g and apache already setup there.

Take note, before this complete wipeout, said file up there was working fine.

To install PHP with oci8, I followed a guide here, with some differences, but I'll list it down, just the same.

yum install php-pear
yum install php-devel
pear download pecl/oci8
tar xvzf oci8-2.0.6.tgz
cd oci8-2.0.6
phpize
./configure --with-oci8=$ORACLE_HOME
make
make install
setsebool -P httpd_execmem 1

Afterwards, I added the following at the very end of /etc/php.ini file:
[OCI8]
extension=oci8.so

Then, I restarted apache via service httpd restart.

And then, I encountered the problem.

The System:

Fedora 19 x86_64
Oracle 11g
Apache 2.4.6

What I tried:
I thought at first it was Konqueror's problem. Fiddling with the View settings sometimes fixed it - most of the time, it did nothing.

So I installed Google Chrome, which displayed the same thing.

At this point I went, what the heck, I just installed php via yum install php. Maybe php-pear or php-devel on its own is not enough to run a php file.

No dice. All I wanted was to start over and install PHP with oci8 from scratch.

It appears PHP itself has a problem, and I'm stuck. A bit of research online says something about the tags, that php can't run <?.... ?>, as opposed to <?php ..... ?>, but as you can see with my phpinfo example, it didn't help much.

Other Information:
I get this from PHP's error log. I'm not sure if it means anything, as I recall seeing something like this back before I nuked my system, but perhaps they can be of some use.

AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.php) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

They don't seem to appear in the error log at any predictable frequency - loading up any PHP file or restarting apache are the only two things I've done.

what do you get if you run php -i from command line (assuming CLI is installed and in path)? — Anthony
– Anthony, Commented Dec 4, 2013 at 7:45
@Anthony, I get a pretty long list of sessions, variables, environments, etc. — zack_falcon
– zack_falcon, Commented Dec 4, 2013 at 7:52
@alok.kumar, yes, the file extension is php. The file name is info.php — zack_falcon
– zack_falcon, Commented Dec 4, 2013 at 7:53

user4035 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-04 07:48:51Z

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It's not the browser. Probably, you don't have php module activated in your Apache. Look at your httpd.conf, and put the following lines there:

# Load the PHP module:
LoadModule php5_module lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.so

# Tell Apache to feed all *.php files through PHP.  If you'd like to
# parse PHP embedded in files with different extensions, comment out
# these lines and see the example below.
<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

answered Dec 4, 2013 at 7:48

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zack_falcon Over a year ago

I added this to the very end of the httpd.conf file. It didn't work, even after I restarted the apache.

user4035 Over a year ago

@zack_falcon This code is copied from my httpd.conf. Change php5_module to your dir if necessary. On my machine, they are located in /usr/lib/httpd/modules

user4035 Over a year ago

@zack_falcon I am absolutely sure, that if you see text of php file, instead of result of it's execution, the module is not working, and the error is lurking here.

zack_falcon Over a year ago

I found it in /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so/, and changed the line to that. When that didn't work, I changed it to lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so/. Unfortunately, it didn't work either.

user4035 Over a year ago

@zack_falcon Why do you have a slash at the end? Is the path to file: /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so/libphp5.so?

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