<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Here, try these commands geo and send the output please. Apache2 has two tools that let you enable and disable modules without worry about linking etc. a2enmod This will then ask you what module you want to enable. You should see php5 in the list (this list btw is all the modules you have installed on your machine, as far as apache knows - installed but not necessarily activated/enabled). Type php5 (assuming it is in the list) and hit Enter. If will tell you if it is already enabled, or will tell you it was successfully enabled, or will throw an error. Please send the output and interactions you have. Note you can also use a2dismod to disable modules. You could use this to see what is already enabled - hopefully php5 is listed. If not then use a2enmod as above. If you want to quit either tool without making any changes type "CTRL-C" to return to the command line. Once the php5 module is enabled in apache, restart it (apache2ctl restart) and then see if the PHP file works properly in Firefox. Kirk geo wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:351646.20291.qm@web30102.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top">I was trying to implement your advice. I was creating the files "php5.conf" and "php5.load" and their respective contents and permissions by hand.....then I realized I don't have a modules directory! This is the contents of my /etc/apache2/ directory: (Directories) conf.d mods-available mods-enabled sites-available sites-enabled (Individual files) apache2.conf enwars httpd.conf ports.conf And that's all that's in /etc/apache2/ !!! There is no /etc/apache2/modules/ path! YIKES! What has happened? Why isn't there one there? geo --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Andrew Mathenge <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mathenge@gmail.com"><mathenge@gmail.com></a> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Andrew Mathenge <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mathenge@gmail.com"><mathenge@gmail.com></a> Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada? To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yaktur@yahoo.com">yaktur@yahoo.com</a>, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com"><ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:46 PM <pre>The problem you have is that PHP modules aren't being loaded by apache. You mentioned that when you wrote: >> I don't have any such files named php5.conf and php5.load in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/. Nothing there even starts with php. I have PHP working on my system. My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf file looks like this: <IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm </IfModule> Inside the folder /etc/apache2/mods-enabled folder, I also have the following links: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-04-26 22:26 php5.conf -> ../mods-available/php5.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-04-26 22:26 php5.load -> ../mods-available/php5.load Notice that these are links (or shortcuts) pointing to the following files in /etc/apache2/mods-available -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 2008-02-27 15:49 php5.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 2008-02-27 15:49 php5.load Those files have the following contents: php5.conf looks like this: <IfModule mod_php5.c> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps </IfModule> And php5.load looks like this: LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so Which means that the file in /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so MUST exist or PHP will not work. One final comment. Removing "index.php" from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf means that the file index.php won't be loaded by default. PHP files will still be processed because of the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php.conf file. Hope this moves you a step closer! Andrew.</pre> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </blockquote> </body> </html>