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Why Netscape shows me the source of my PHP pages instead of executing them?

Dec 19th, 2000 02:45
Eddy L O Jansson, Will McCutcheon, Don Broadhead, Kris Kumler, Gianandrea Terzi,

For your server, you probably do not have a correct install of PHP.  
You must register your file types (.php/.php3) for the server 
(Apache/IIS/PWS).  Look in the documentation for this... Also, make 
sure you set 'execute' permissions on the files & directories.  The 
server does not know to process the file as a script, so it is 
outputting it as a plain/text file.

If you're running Apache, you probably just don't have these two lines 
in your httpd.conf file:
   AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
If those are missing, add them and restart Apache.

ALSO...
If php was compiled with the '--disable-short-tags' option set, the <? 
will not invoke php. The start tag has to be <?php...