My server is fairly old (based on SuSE 9), and while I try to go through the pain of updating to the latest Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL, I ran into this problem with one of my hosted domains.
The site has an index.php, and if I browse to their site example.org/index.php it displays fine.
But if I navigate to http://example.org or http://example.org/ , Firefox pops up a dialog asking if I want to save the file or view it in a program. The downloaded file is a copy of the unprocessed index.php file.
The config file for the domain has not changed, but clearly I messed up something. In the config file is ‘DirectoryIndex index.php’. In the DocumentRoot is a .htaccess file with only ‘XBitHack on’.
Confusing the matter is that I have another hosted domain with a WordPress install that also uses index.php, and navigating there works just fine.
Here’s the site: http://www.sjbridge.org or http://www.sjbridge.org/index.php
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Here’s some more information: When I navigate to http://www.sjbridge.org, Firefox presents the file as ‘application/x-httpd-php’ in the content-type, but for /index.php the content-type is, of course, text/html.
Ugh, I cleared the cache in my browser and the problem went away. Let me say ‘Never mind.’