PHP script won't render in browser - just displays the code

[mickburkejnr]

Hi all,

I use Fedora 17 on my laptop, and I am trying to do some web development work on it. I have installed Apache, MySQL and PHP on the laptop (following this guide when it comes to what software to install: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora-10-p5). I can load web pages, but I am unable to load PHP pages properly. All that happens is that the actual code of the of the script is displayed in browser.

I've checked to see if mod_php is installed, and it is. I thought that maybe PHP was turned off globally, but I don't think it is. I must stress actually, that although the guide that I put the link to on this post does talk about turning PHP globally off, I haven't done this. I have just installed the software. But anyway, I have tried to look for the php.conf files in the httpd/conf.d directory, but nothing is there.

I'm quite confused about why it's not working. I remember having a similar issue before, but that was back in 2009, and I haven't experienced this problem since.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance!

UPDATE:
Forgot to mention, I have also created a file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it, and the browser just renders the code, and no information. PHP is installed, as trying to do a "yum install php" and related packages just says that it's been installed.

[Doug G]

First, if you're using a fedora 10 tutorial it's quite out of date. ispconfig offers tutorials up to fedora 15. I'd use a relatively current setup. Also, it appears the ispconfig folks gave up on Fedora with F15, probably due to all the systemd and network changes made it too big a project to modify their software. Visit the ispconfig documentation page to get a list of all the tutorials they have.

If you're trying to open the php file directly from your browser you'll get the results you describe. You have to serve php pages through a web server using something like http://localhost/myphppage.php