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preachur
PHP5 and documents downloading instead of opening....
  • 2007/4/18 3:40

  • preachur

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I finally took Mithrandir's suggestion and made my host update the dedicated server to PHP 5 so I could use the modules SmartProfile and SmartBlocks. It's Fedora 5 which originally came with PHP 5, but I made them downgrade it to 4.4 when they set it up. NOW I can't get ANY php documents to open, they just try to download and say:

"You have chosen to open

which is an: application/x-httpd-php"

The tech support over there says that it must be the applications, but even a simple php test wont work. I tried a yum update with putty, I tried adding

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

to the bottom of httpd.conf.

I also ran the yum install on the http-devel.

Any suggestions? I needs those modules.
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JCDunnart
Re: PHP5 and documents downloading instead of opening....
  • 2007/4/18 4:26

  • JCDunnart

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You restarted the service after making the change to httpd.conf and it still didn't work?

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preachur
Re: PHP5 and documents downloading instead of opening....
  • 2007/4/18 4:51

  • preachur

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Sure did.... and then the host tried to roll it back to 4.4 and now all domain configurations have disappeared and nothing is working. This is a nightmare. I hope they can fix it because I have now lost all access.
Magick can never be restrained, but when freely given is thrice regained!

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JCDunnart
Re: PHP5 and documents downloading instead of opening....
  • 2007/4/18 15:33

  • JCDunnart

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If you had to add "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" to the configuration file then it looks like your host did not install PHP 5 correctly.

Good luck...

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preachur
Re: PHP5 and documents downloading instead of opening....
  • 2007/4/18 20:16

  • preachur

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They sure didn't. Now php5 won't build at all. I managed to get it back to 4, but they screwed it up for 5. I got into WHM and tried to rebuild it with every version of 5 available and got errors every time and nothing worked. I have put over 30 hours into trying to make this work.

I need ONE module, and this site, a 7 month project, can launch. (If the module does what it's supposed to.)

Unfortunately it's one of the TWO modules in the world I know of that require php5.
Magick can never be restrained, but when freely given is thrice regained!