PHP in Mac OS X : Shows up the PHP code when opening the page

6
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PHP Source Code is being shown up when opening PHP page in my localhost. This looks strange to me. I'm using using PHP 5.3.1 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

$ php --version
PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Feb 28 2010 15:02:51) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

I'm running the default httpd webserver on my machine. The /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file has the following line to load php module:

LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

The httpd.conf file Syntax is OK.

$ httpd -t            
Syntax OK

am I missing something? Please suggest!

Thanks!

3
phpapachemacos
Do you have handlers configured, something like: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .php5 – Davor Lucic
@rebus I've missed to include /private/etc/apache2/other/php5.conf in httpd.conf file. It works now after adding it. I've spent lots of time to figure this out. Thanks! – heapzero

3 Answers

7
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You need to add AddType to your server config:

AddType x-httpd-php .php

This can be added to the httpd.conf file, or even in an .htaccess file.

7
votes

For OS X Yosemite 10.10 need to add:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
4
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One possible reason why this is happening to you is because you're using short PHP tags <? instead of <?php

Either change that in all php files that are included or simply allow short PHP tags by adding short_open_tag=On in php.ini and then restart your apache server.