I have a really strange situation with apache2 and the way it is running a php
file in some circumstances and offering it up to the browser as text in
others. The file in question is index.php as the key file using the drupal
content management system.
I have authentication set on most directories in my server configuration so
that if I access the web server from outside it requires authentication. If
it is from a machine running on the local network it doesn't. The
configuration is thus
Alias /drupal /usr/share/drupal
<Directory /usr/share/drupal/>
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Chandler Intranet"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users
AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/groups
Require group family
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168.0.0/24
Satisfy any
</Directory>
The .htaccess file has (amongst other things)
DirectoryIndex index.php
in it, and so in fact does the main server configuration.
When I access the web server with the url http://myserver/drupal from a
192.168.0.0/24 address, it works and index.php gets executed as a php script.
When I access this url from outside I get prompted for a user name and
password which I enter correctly and then find that the text of index.php not
sent as html (at least I am prompted by Internet Exlorer to either save or
open the file. When I choose wordpad, I have recieved the text inside
index.php)
Just to convince myself that php can really run, I have another directory
phptest with an index.php file as follows
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
and when I call this up (http://myserver/phptest ) from outside I get a
detailed web page full of php information.
I just cannot think what it could be about my apache configuration that
changes the behaviour dependant on the source of the browser.
Anyone any ideas?
Or ... any ideas about I can understand how exactly the apache configuration
file has been parsed so that I can locate the source of my problem.
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Alan Chandler
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi
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