I did an update on my LINUX server earlier tonight with the following packages apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-worker apache2 usermin libapt-pkg-perl apt-show-versions webmin webmin-virtual-server Afterwards my Wordpress sites stopped working and all PHP files are being served as file attachments with a content type: of application/x-httpd-php Chrome shows the basic html,css,js but IE and FF just download the file as if it were an attachment so the server has stopped parsing PHP correctly. I read a few articles of similar problems and I have tried adding the following to all the php.ini files I can find in /etc/php5/cli and /etc/php5/cgi but it doesn't seem to solve anything. Maybe I am doing it in the wrong place OR there are other ini / conf files I don't know aboiut. How can I check whether the system is setup correctly and what has changed to cause this? Also I tried removing all my htaccess rules as I thought it was an issue with my caching system but that didn't work either My htacess file has the following in it <FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpg|css|js|swf|flv|ogg)$"> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 weeks" FileETag none </FilesMatch> # BEGIN WPSuperCache <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.* RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L] </IfModule> # BEGIN supercache <IfModule mod_mime.c> <FilesMatch "\.html\.gz$"> ForceType text/html FileETag None </FilesMatch> AddEncoding gzip .gz AddType text/html .gz </IfModule> <IfModule mod_deflate.c> SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.gz$ no-gzip </IfModule> <IfModule mod_headers.c> Header set Vary "Accept-Encoding, Cookie" Header set Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate' </IfModule> <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html A300 </IfModule> # END supercache # END WPSuperCache # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress I am not a sysadmin so not really sure what the problem is only that it started after the update. Any help would be much appreciated.
You lack of php type in the apache config Be sure to have LoadModule libphp5.so (its usually goes with full path) and these in your httpd.conf: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
Yes I had to add the following to the ini file AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so as well as re-install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get purge libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo a2enmod php5 sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Why this all disappeared from my server after the upgrade I have no idea? Site had been up and running okay for months. Thanks for your help