Apache2 Not Serving PHP :-(

[skaffen]

Hi there

I'm new to Zabbix and still getting to grips with Linux...I've just done a clean build of Ubuntu 6.10 server and am installing Zabbix. I've got to the test point and when I try to access the web site, it says:

You have chosen to open <blank>
which is a: application/x-httpd-php
from http://zabbix

What should Firefox do with this file?

Same thing happens in IE7, it's trying to download the php file to me...

I've spent a few hours Goggling around, and my best guess is Apache2 isn't loading the php module(s) ?

I've changed apache2.conf and added

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

but where do I tell it to load the php module? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Help! :-)

[kevlatimer]

Bit of a gotcha on Debian based apache2 packages - may or not be the cause here.

The apache2 package by default installs the apache2-mpm-worker package, which is a threaded implementation of apache. The PHP packages don't seem to be compiled thread-safe so you need the preforking model. Just issue an apt-get apache2-mpm-prefork and it'll sort itself out.

This may or may not be the case on Ubuntu, I've not used it as a webserver before.

[Arthur]

Hallo skaffen,

pls check

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/357

it look like you missed the libapache2-mod-php5

rgds
/Arthur

[skaffen]

PHP is working, I can view .php and .php5 in IE7 now. Still can't get Firefox to work with .php5, it still wants to download the file...

My big problem is http://zabbix/~zabbix comes up blank in IE7, in Firefox it still wants to download the page as a file...

Any more ideas for me to try? I'm contemplating starting from scratch again...