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PHP on Mac OS X: shows PHP code when opening a page

The PHP source code is displayed when I open the PHP page in my localhost. It seems strange to me. I am using PHP 5.3.1 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

$ php --version PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Feb 28 2010 15:02:51) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

I am running the default httpd web server on my machine. The file / etc / apache 2 / httpd.conf has the following line for loading the php module:

 LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

The syntax of the httpd.conf file is fine.

 $ httpd -t Syntax OK

Am I missing something? Please suggest!

Thanks!

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You need to add AddType to your server configuration:

 AddType x-httpd-php .php

This can be added to the httpd.conf file or even to the .htaccess file.

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For OS X Yosemite 10.10, you must add:

 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
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One of the possible reasons why this happens to you is that you use short PHP tags <? instead of <?php

Either change that in all php files included or just enable short PHP tags by adding short_open_tag=On in php.ini and then restart the Apache server.

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