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PHP not working in Apache2 after system upgrade

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Recently upgraded my system from Karmic to Lucid. This involved Apache and PHP being updated I believe.

Now my server is unable to handle PHP files, any navigation to them is triggering downloading rather than parsing.

The PHP module is still loaded in Apache mods-enabled and I have
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php in my httpd.conf.

There are no meaningful messages in Apache access or error logs so I am stumped.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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/var/log/apache2/error.log should show a line like the below if PHP was succesfully loaded:

[Tue Aug 30 12:53:36 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations

Pay attention to the date, if it's something from 2009, you've misconfigured something.

AddType is useless, you need to use:

<FilesMatch ".php$">

    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

</FilesMatch>

See also the installation instructions on php.net for Apache 2.x.

You should not have a need to add that manually, the package libapache2-mod-php5 installs /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf containing:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

    <FilesMatch ".ph(p3?|tml)$">

        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

    </FilesMatch>

    <FilesMatch ".phps$">

        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source

    </FilesMatch>

    # To re-enable php in user directories comment the following lines

    # (from <IfModule ...> to </IfModule>.) Do NOT set it to On as it

    # prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.

    <IfModule mod_userdir.c>

        <Directory /home/*/public_html>

            php_admin_value engine Off

        </Directory>

    </IfModule>

</IfModule>

Since it's a conffile, it's possible that it's not installed with the upgrade. To fix that purge it and then install it again:

sudo apt-get purge libapache2-mod-php5

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

To enable PHP, you have to run:

sudo a2enmod php5

Restart the webserver after:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Other things to do:

check for conflicting settings in /etc/apache2.

have you built Apache from source?

Run sudo apache2ctl configtest to check your configuration for syntax errors

Open http://localhost/server-info to check the loaded configuration and modules. The status module must be loaded for that. If you're running a remote server, you need to add yourself to the Allow from list in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/status.conf and restart the server afterwards