CentOS 7 + PHP7 -- php not rendering in browser

Question

I have a clean install of apache/httpd and php7.1.0 running on CentOS 7.

When I execute from the command line:

php -v

I get the expected response:

PHP 7.1.0 (cli) (built: Dec  1 2016 08:13:15) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

But when I try to hit my phpinfo.php page, all I get is... <?php phpinfo(); ?> literally outputted to the screen - can someone tell me what I'm missing, did I forget to enable a mod?

Well, looks like php is not activated inside your http server. — arkascha, Jan 04 '17 at 15:51
Either it is not installed (note that CLI and http server module are _separate_ packages) or it simply is not activated in the http server configuration. — arkascha, Jan 04 '17 at 15:52

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '18 at 20:30

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For PHP 7 (May apply to previous versions as well), but I had to do this:

Add this to the bottom of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or for Centos /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

answered Nov 20 '18 at 20:30

Fabien Thetis

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '19 at 18:03

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Fabien's answer worked for me, but apache started to serve css/js files with the wrong mime type. I fixed it adding this at the end of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<FilesMatch \.php$>
 SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

answered Feb 22 '19 at 18:03

fabianfiorotto

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '17 at 15:58

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That means that PHP isn't enabled in Apache. PHP addresses that here - step 8 should solve your problem.

As an addition: what I usually do on a new install, is install an entire LAMP-server. On Ubuntu, that's done with sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ (note: the caret is not a typo).

answered Jan 04 '17 at 15:58

Nietvoordekat

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sweet that did the trick... It's frustrating that this wasn't done automatically... – Didier Jean Charles Jan 04 '17 at 16:08
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just a note: apt-get is for debian-based systems, not for CentOS ^^ – treyBake Mar 06 '18 at 16:38

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 13:50

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This was solution for me - adding this line into httpd.conf where your app's ServerName and DocumentRoot are:

ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/var/www/laravel/public/$1

answered Jun 10 '19 at 13:50

wast

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 16 '22 at 02:52

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Comment out the "Directory" line in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf file. Then restart the httpd server

answered Aug 16 '22 at 02:52

Gorson

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 12 '23 at 11:24

ran into the same problem. On a Centos 8 Stream installation.

First check if php is installed and working, for example:

php /var/www/html/info.php

If this works, and apache is not serving/interpreting the php file, than install php-fpm (mod_php was deprecated):

dnf install php-fpm
systemctl enable php-fpm
systemctl status php-fpm
systemctl restart httpd

Check in the browser. If successful, delete the info.php file

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