Apache :: Apache 2 with php5 - server-side scripts not recognized

djbranson · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lubbock, Texas

I have installed Apache 2.2.3 with php 5.1.6 on Windows XP SP2. Client-side php scripts seem to work okay when called from my browser, but when I call a server-side php script from html, it simply displays the php script's source code in the browser window. The server-side php script I am testing with html is:

<?php
$to = "test@mydomain.com";
$subject = "Test Contact Form";
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if($sent)
{print "The mail was sent";}
else
{print "An error was encountered with the mail";" ";$email;" ";$subject;" ";$message;" ";$headers}
?>

The html that calls it is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form name="contacts" method="post" action="contact_test.php">
Email: <input name="email" type="text"><br>
Message:<br>
<textarea name="message" rows="15"
cols="40"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Any help would be appreciated.

admin · Site Admin Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 679

You said: "... Client-side php scripts seem to work okay...".

Seems ? Be sure that it is working.

Tried the following and it works fine here:

<?php
$to = "test@mydomain.com";
$subject = "Test Contact Form";
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if($sent)
echo ("The mail was sent");
else
echo ("An error was encountered with the mail");
?>

djbranson · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lubbock, Texas

The client-side script I called directly from my browser's command line is:

<?php
echo "This is a php5 client-side test!<br>\n";
phpinfo();
?>

This displayed the sentence above, plus several pages of tabular php information. I have not performed any other tests to verify that the client-side of php is working.

I ran the script you provided, and got the same result - the script echoed in the browser. Do you have any ideas as to what I should do from here?

Steffen

Where did you download Apache ?

and what changes you made in you httpd.conf ?

djbranson · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lubbock, Texas

I followed the "Apache and PHP - A Fast, Reliable, and Proven Setup" post to download and set up Apache, PHP5, and your Microsoft VC++ build, and to edit httpd.conf and Apache2/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf (these varied slightly from the written steps, as httpd-userdir.conf was a separate file in the current distribution of Apache 2.2.3).

In httpd.conf I edited to add/change:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/PHP5/php5apache2.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "c:/PHP5"
ServerAdmin me@mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "c:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents/My Website/localhost/www"
<Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents/My Website/localhost/www">
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "c:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents/My Website/localhost/cgi/"
<Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents/My Website/localhost/cgi">
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

In httpd-userdir.conf I edited to add/change:

UserDir "My Documents/My Website"
<Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents/My Website/localhost">
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI

I also made a change to the PATH environmental variable to include c:\PHP5. I think that covers the changes I made.

Steffen

You config looks ok, except:

do you really need user dir ?
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html
Try to comment it out

djbranson · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Lubbock, Texas

I have commented out the "Include httpd-userdir.conf", but still have the same problem. It seems like the browser sees server-side PHP scripts as text. Do browsers typically display bad code as text? If not, then I think this problem may not be in the scripts or the Apache/PHP installation. Do you know what should show up in the Windows registry related to these installations?

Steffen

Maybe you can send me the link ( the contact link at the left top menu), so I can see if it is browser related.

For Apache there is nothing in the register what it needs, only whhen you install it as a service.

Steffen