Question

I want to render a .phtml file through Apache, however when I try, it renders the page as text and not as html.

In my vhost configuration, if I try to render an index.php, it executes properly. But when I change the DirectoryIndex to index.phtml and try to render the index.phtml present in the public directory it just renders text.

The vhost Config is:
code
ServerName parminder.com
DocumentRoot “C:/workspace/parminder_local_net/public”
ErrorLog logs/parmindercom.log

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

DirectoryIndex index.phtml
*

What else do I need to configure for this to work? Do I need to use .htaccess?
What is the basic concept?

Answer 1

You need to configure Apache so it knows that you want .phtml files to be treated as PHP. See step 8 of the PHP install guide.

<FilesMatch "\.ph(p[2-6]?|tml)$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

… but .phtml is the file extension used for PHP 2. You should probably audit them, bring them up to modern PHP coding practises and rename them to follow current conventions.