Question

I’m using apache2 and enabled a site that has no index.html file in its <Directory> directive, so an index of all the files is displayed instead of an html webpage.

I’ve included some .php files that I want to allow other people to download, however whenever I download a .php file from this page, it is already ‘interpreted’.

For example if I save hello.php onto my desktop

<? php $var = 'hello world'; echo $var ?>

When I open up hello.php the code reads

hello

Is there any way I can allow people to download the code before it is interpreted?

Answer 1

Depending on the server configuration you need a .htaccess with:

# for mod_php
php_value engine off

Or:

# for CGI setups
Options -ExecCGI

Or:

# for FastCGI this depends on the name of the handler script
RemoveHandler .php
#RemoveHandler php5-fastcgi .php

And sometimes even a brute-force method:

<FilesMatch "[.]php\d?$">
   ForceType text/php
   SetHandler default-handler
</FilesMatch>