Bug#380651: apache2: can't open php files

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Package: apache2
> Version: 2.0.55-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> the file install.php is of type application/x-php (php script)
> and mozilla does not know what to do about it....
> 
> So it seems that the php4 module is not loaded, but I don't understand
> why
> libapache2-mod-php4
> and all the php4 package are installed.
> 
> The php4.load file in 
>  /etc/apache2/mods-available contains
> 
> LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so
> 
> 
> And this lib exists. So I don't know.

Did you install libapache2-mod-php4 fully, and do you have the
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf file? Because the module package's postinst
script has this:

if [ -e /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ]; then
# Enable the module, but hide a2enmod's misleading message about apachectl
# and force-reload the thing ourselves.
        a2enmod php4 >/dev/null || true
        reload_apache
fi

In any case, can you run manually as root:

a2enmod php4

and then verify that you get something like this:

% ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 37 2005-10-24 14:46 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 37 2005-10-24 14:46 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.load

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