php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

[Eric]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2007/9/12, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net>:
>> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 20:51:52 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>>
>>> There's only one problem left to be solved - files with php extensions
>>> are not really shown in browser until I click RELOAD. Files with html
>>> extensions are shown without the need to reload. Thanks for your
>>> patience!
> 
> Actually, maybe my description should be corrected - that is when I
> want to access a directory where index.php resides, apache will just
> display this directory content. But when I click (not reload) the php
> file, page is loaded correctly.
> 
>> To try and come to the cause, take Indexes outof Options for a given
>> directory/location. It should give a Forbidden at that time, reason will be
>> in error log, the exact request should be in access log. Look for subtle
>> differences if there are any - between the forbidden and the reloaded page
>> (like ending slash or what not).
> 
> I did it for one directory where it was defined and I did get 403
> error. So reading httpd-error.log:
> Directory index forbidden by rule: /usr/local/www/data/test/
> 
> access-log:
> "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 302
> 
> Maybe I will have to say reconcile with php 4.4.7 after all.
> 


maybe this was already mentioned, but what do you have DirectoryIndex 
set to?

it should look something like:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php