php failing to produce phpinfo()

[eoghan]

bob wrote:
> My business has been using PHP for years.  Mysql outputs to my browser, 
> where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic.
> 
> Suddenly, my browser started acting funny.  I don't know how to use the 
> repair disk to fix a problem, so I reinstalled FreeBSD-6.1.  It still 
> works the same except I can't get phpinfo() to display in the browser.  
> I can do php -i, which displays several pages of PHP code.  That means 
> PHP is working.  I don't use CGI or PHP scripts.  If phpinfo() doesn't 
> show up in my browser, I can't do anything.
> 
> The following is in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> 
> LoadModule php5_module
> AddModule mod_php5.c
> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
> DirectoryIndex index.html
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> 
> The httpd.error.log doesn't show any problems.  Thre are 35 modules in 
> /usr/local/libexec/apache including libphp5.so and httpd.exp.  Php.ini 
> is installed at /usr/local/lib
> 
> This time I installed mysql-5.1, apache-1.3 and PHP-5.1.  I used 
> "pkg_add -r" to install apache and mysql.  Apache and mysql work 
> excellent.  I installed PHP from www.php.net. Both PHP4 and PHP5 would 
> fail to load the phpinfo() file. I installed PHP-5.1 from the ports 
> directory.  Same problem.   I ordered FreeBSD-6.1, before it was 
> available.  The FreeBSD Mall had it, but wasn't promoting it yet.
> 
> 
> About 2 years ago when I first installed FreeBSD-6.1, I installed 
> mysql-4.0, PHP-4 and apache-1.3 on FreeBSD-6.1.  I used "pkg_add -r" to 
> install apache and mysql and I downloaded PHP-4 from www.php.net.  
> Everything worked, including PHP.  Two years ago, www.php.net was 
> supplying any version of PHP including older versions of PHP-4.  I 
> installed  older versions because they worked.
> Now www.php.net only supplies the latest version.
> 
> thanks for any help,
> bob

Hi
Not sure but whats your php info page look like? Think short tags are 
either off or on by default... do you have <?php .. ?> ?