Re: Getting PHP to work with Apache on other directories

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On 9/14/22 06:49, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I just installed Debian testing. I do PHP development. I host live
> websites at /var/www/html and development sites at
> /home/paulf/public_html. I have Apache configured so that
> localhost/~paulf/ gets me to the sites at /home/paulf/public_html.
>
> I have an index.html and a script to test PHP functionality in both
> locations. The phpinfo.php script consists of <?php phpinfo();.
>
> All of this works fine in both locations with straight HTML pages. And
> it works fine for PHP pages at /var/www/html. However, when I try to
> access the phpinfo.php script at ~/public_html, I get a blank page and
> the Apache log gives a 304 error (I've refreshed the cache in Firefox).
> The php.ini config file has "open_basedir=", so that it should function
> in any directory. And just for testing, the phpinfo.php script at
> ~/public_html has permissions 777.
>
> Can anyone explain this, and how to fix it?

I was just there.

Comment out the last 5 lines of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/phpX.conf

where X is your version of PHP

HTH,

Paul