PHP5 and Apache2 will not work on AMD64[PARTIAL SOLUTION]

[Simon Dawson]

I have installed both Apache2 and PHP5. Apache works - I can parse an HTML file with no problems, but when I try a .php or a .php5 file all it does is offer to download it. As far as I can see the symlinks are all ok and the modules exist and /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf exists, httpd.conf has the ServerRoot "/usr/lib64/apache2" DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" set correctly and Include /etc/apache2/modules.d/*.conf' is set. apache2 has APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP5". libphp5.so exists in /usr/lib64/apache2/modules

Why do the php files not get intercepted and processed by the modules? Does anybody have any ideas? I have tried unmerging and re-emerging a number of times but never getting anywhere nearer a solution. Am I missing something really obvious and being a bit of a dunce?

70_mod_php5.conf seems to be Ok and sets the correct application type. Is there any way I can check Apache to see if it is reading and importing the specified modules. I have looked in the log files and that doesn't offer anything. Help please!!!

[Simon Dawson]

I have partially solved this.

I dug a bit deeper in the forums and discovered many people seem to have the same problem. I have tracked it down to the fact that APACHE2_OPTS is not being read and therefore the PHP5 variable is not being defined. As I know, on this server at least, that I always want PHP5 this is not a problem as I have just commented out the <IfDefine PHP5> and the </IfDefine> at the top and bottom of the file....now it gets read and the php module is loaded.

As to why the APACHE2_OPTS is not being set....I have no idea.

Hope this helps someone else.