Debian apache2 is not executing php scripts, instead it's showing the source

Question

I know this is probably most discussed topic online, I did search here and stackexchange and tried various answers but none of them seems to be working for me, hence why I am posting this.

I have a Debian with LAMP stack and recently had to upgrade php from 5.4 to 5.6 (latest).

I began by removing the old version like this:

a2dismod php5

sudo apt-get --remove --purge libapache2-mod-php5filter libapache2-mod-php5 libphp5-embed php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql

Added the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56-zts all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56-zts all 

And ran the following commands:

wget https://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg sudo apt-key add dotdeb.gpg sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-mysqlnd 

Then I enabled php5 with this command a2enmod php5 and restarted apache2 with this command service apache2 restart

When I go to one of the PHP scripts on the site, I am seeing the source, the script is not getting executed.

On the server, I can see that PHP5.6 is correctly installed:

root@server:~# php -v PHP 5.6.18-1~dotdeb+zts+7.1 (cli) (built: Feb 6 2016 23:39:42) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies 

And I can see that PHP5 module is enabled in apache2:

Here are the contents of these files:

• php5.load
• php5.conf

I even tried restarting the whole server, it does not help. I've checked /var/log/apache2/error.log and I do not see any errors. All I see is:

[Tue Feb 09 12:52:09 2016] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Feb 09 12:52:09 2016] [notice] Digest: done [Tue Feb 09 12:52:09 2016] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1e configured -- resuming normal operations 

I use VirtualHost in apache2 to serve the site. This is is my entry:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName www.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /home/setup/public_html <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> <Directory /home/setup/public_html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

Any idea why the PHP script is not getting executed? What I have missed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Okay, I have fixed it.

I have removed the following:

# Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default # # 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_flag engine Off </Directory> </IfModule> 

From /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf and restarted apache and PHP now works.