My PHP site's first page is shown as php code inside browser

Question

I have a Windows server 2003 service pack 2 installed on my virtual host. This is my server settings:

IIS version: 6.0
PHP version: 5.3.28
My website engine: Wordpress

When I try to open my site inside my browser, I see lot of php code inside browser. Other pages works fine but the first page is full of php code.

What is the problem?

Edit:

I have this site working fine on my local machine. The error is just inside the main server.
I changed short_open_tag to On but nothing changed.
Now I'm trying to remove the wordpress and install it from scratch.

Are you pointing the browser to localhost, or simply to the file? — Mark Baker, Jun 18 '14 at 07:04
Make sure that pages extension is .php not .php.txt or something. That got me a few times when I set up my page and I created the index page as a txt or html unknowingly. — user2067005, Jun 18 '14 at 07:05
no I'm trying to open site by domain url in browser. I saw some parts of page but the middle of page is shown as php code. — S.Yavari, Jun 18 '14 at 07:05
Make sure extension is PHP & you are not breaking PHP tag anywhere around the code. — Rikesh, Jun 18 '14 at 07:06
Since you say that other pages are executing php normally I would suggest checking if the Greather Than symbol (<) is not replaced with > — Maarten Bicknese, Jun 18 '14 at 07:07
Have you used short tags ? Make sure it's open at server. Or post the code of the page so that we can help you more. — Rikesh, Jun 18 '14 at 07:09
@Rikesh What do you mean by "Make sure it's open at server"? Tell me more abouth this. — S.Yavari, Jun 18 '14 at 07:10
did you used ?> php short tags, this caused me similar problem onetime. but it was an error for me. — Vignesh, Jun 18 '14 at 07:11
@S.Yavari - Read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2185320/how-to-enable-php-short-tags — Rikesh, Jun 18 '14 at 07:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '14 at 07:05

Probably a problem of pairing tags.

<?php Instructions ?>

Check each start and end tag. If you don't see an error, try do copy the code in a draft, delete all the page and then reconstruct it part by part to see where is the problem.

Hope this technique will help you.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '14 at 07:08

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Did you follow all instructions in order to activate the IIS FastCGI module, as shown on this page ? http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis7.php

answered Jun 18 '14 at 07:08

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I have iis6.0 and yes. I have another php site working fine on this machine. – S.Yavari Jun 18 '14 at 07:09
Did you configure `index.php` as default document on this website ? – Pete_Gore Jun 18 '14 at 07:35
What's happening when you put a simple `` on a page on this website, and load it from the browser ? – Pete_Gore Jun 18 '14 at 07:38
Other pages working fine. I have this problem inside my first page and not in all of the page. Just the middle of page has problem. – S.Yavari Jun 18 '14 at 07:39
Did you check the PHP tags inside this page ? – Pete_Gore Jun 18 '14 at 07:50
Ye I checked theme all – S.Yavari Jun 18 '14 at 07:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '14 at 11:15

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The problem is solved just by removing wordpress and installing it again.

answered Jun 18 '14 at 11:15

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