Webpage showing PHP code instead of parsing it

Question

I recently reinstalled Apache and now my PHP code is shown directly instead of being ran. For example, if I go to example.com/info.php, all I see is:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I double checked PHP wasn't uninstalled. Is there some configuration setting somewhere I'm missing?

Solution (question is not duplicate)

This problem was because after the new install of Apache, the modules were not configured correctly. Something about thread vs events. Anywho, run these commands:

a2dismod mpm_event
a2enmod mpm_prefork
systemctl restart apache2.service

Now my php works perfectly

Have you checked your file extension? It should be "file_name.php" not "file_name.html" — Zainul Abideen, May 24 '18 at 00:41
Yes, it's all php. All these webpages were working before the Apache reinstall — Oren Bell, May 24 '18 at 00:42
If you reinstalled Apache, you may need to re-enable/re-install mod_php (how to do so depends on your OS) — Chris Forrence, May 24 '18 at 00:43
Went hunting for a solution. Ended up enabling a php7.0 mod. Now my apache won't start — Oren Bell, May 24 '18 at 00:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '18 at 00:49

check the apache configuration:

ensure that in your httpd.conf you have the line LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so or LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so

if you're using php7 check that in apache configuration there is something similar to

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

check that starting apache you don't have error messages (some broken path or some mistype in configuration or similar)

source: http://php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php

I'm using php5.0. And adding that LoadModule line to apache2.conf will prevent apache from restarting — Oren Bell, May 24 '18 at 00:57

Webpage showing PHP code instead of parsing it

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