.php gets downloading instead of executing

On a raspberry pi 2 I installed archlinuxarm

Then I installed lightttpd, php and php-fpm

In /srv/http I have a simple phpinfo.php file with the following code

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

My lighttpd configuration file is

server.port             = 80
server.username         = "http" 
server.groupname        = "http" 
server.document-root    = "/srv/http" 
server.errorlog         = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" 
dir-listing.activate    = "enable" 
index-file.names        = ( "*.php", "index.html" )
mimetype.assign         = (
                                ".html" => "text/html",
                                ".txt" => "text/plain",
                                ".css" => "text/css",
                                ".js" => "application/x-javascript",
                                ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".gif" => "image/gif",
                                ".png" => "image/png",
                                "" => "application/octet-stream" 
                        )

ls -l of /srv/http:

total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 http http 20 Apr  3 20:48 phpinfo.php

When I hit <raspberry pi ip>/phpinfo.php I get a message to download phpinfo.php instead of seeing the phpinfo page.

I can't find how to solve my problem. Any suggestions?

Replies (3)

RE: .php gets downloading instead of executing - Added by gstrauss about 5 years ago

You have not instructed lighttpd to do anything with your files besides the defaults (serve files, serve an index file on in a directory if one exists, or show a directory listing (since you have dir-listing.activate = "enable")

Please see documentation for mod_cgi or mod_fastcgi

Also, your syntax for index-file.names is incorrect. *.php is ambiguous. You might try index.php instead.

RE: .php gets downloading instead of executing - Added by cnikos about 5 years ago

Folder /srv/http has two files:
1.index.html

<html>Hello world</html>

2. index.php

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

ls -l of /srv/http:

total 1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 http http 27 Apr  5 12:00 index.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 http http 20 Apr  1 21:43 index.php

My lighttpd configuration file is

server.port             = 80
server.username         = "http" 
server.groupname        = "http" 
server.document-root    = "/srv/http" 
server.errorlog         = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" 
server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
index-file.names        = ( "index.php", "index.html" )
mimetype.assign         = (
                                ".html" => "text/html",
                                ".txt" => "text/plain",
                                ".css" => "text/css",
                                ".js" => "application/x-javascript",
                                ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".gif" => "image/gif",
                                ".png" => "image/png",
                                "" => "application/octet-stream" 
                                )

When I hit <raspberry pi ip> in Firefox I get this message:

You have chosen to open:

which is: application/octet-stream (20 bytes)
from: <raspberry pi ip>
Would you like to save this file?

When I hit <raspberry pi ip>/index.html or <raspberry pi ip>/index.php in Firefox I get this message:

You have chosen to open:
index.html / index.php
which is: HTML document / PHP script (20 bytes)
from: <raspberry pi ip>
What should Firefox do with this file?

I am new to lighttpd. I just want to test that lighttpd works and can serve pages. Can someone enlighten me what i miss.
Thanks in advance.

RE: .php gets downloading instead of executing - Added by gstrauss about 5 years ago

Please read my earlier response and follow the links.

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