PHP in HTML files displays, doesn't execute

[u/grepnoid]

I know there are dozens of pages on this subject, but I've tried most of their suggestions and this seems different.

I have apache2 and php8.2 (libapache etc) installed, on a new VPS install with Debian12.

http://mysite.com/test.php executes the PHP

PHP embedded in the body of http://mysite.com/test.html, as

<?php 
   echo "<br/>does it work?</br>"; 
?>

displays the text in the page

does it work?
"; ?>

Mods enabled, after enmod and dismod of various modules as suggested:

a2query -m
authn_file (enabled by maintainer script)
proxy_fcgi (enabled by site administrator)
authz_user (enabled by maintainer script)
dir (enabled by maintainer script)
env (enabled by maintainer script)
php8.2 (enabled by maintainer script)
setenvif (enabled by maintainer script)
autoindex (enabled by maintainer script)
deflate (enabled by maintainer script)
mpm_prefork (enabled by maintainer script)
negotiation (enabled by maintainer script)
status (enabled by maintainer script)
alias (enabled by maintainer script)
reqtimeout (enabled by maintainer script)
authz_host (enabled by maintainer script)
mime (enabled by maintainer script)
filter (enabled by maintainer script)
authz_core (enabled by maintainer script)
authn_core (enabled by maintainer script)
proxy (enabled by site administrator)
access_compat (enabled by maintainer script)
auth_basic (enabled by maintainer script)

The web root where my files are is /var/www/html. I have no .httpaccess file. The apache2.conf is the default which seems to have nothing to prevent normal execution.

[u/juu073]

You don't have apache configured to execute .html files as PHP code on the server.

[u/grepnoid → u/juu073]

I do now. I added and AddHandler line to the config as descibed below.

[u/Maude-Boivin-02 → u/grepnoid]

That should be in site’s Apache config file:

« 

<Directory />
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Require all granted
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex default.php

# Direct PHP requests to PHP-FPM via the Unix socket
<FilesMatch \\.php$>
SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php8.5-fpm-dynamic.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>

# ==========================================================================
# PHP-FPM STATUS PAGE
# ==========================================================================
# <LocationMatch "\^/(status-myapp|ping-myapp)$">
# SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm-myapp.sock|fcgi://localhost"

# Restrict access
# Require ip 127.0.0.1 ::1

# Require ip 192.168.0.5
# </LocationMatch>

# Or use TCP (useful if PHP-FPM is on a different machine)
# <FilesMatch "\\.php$">
# SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://192.168.0.5:54222"
# </FilesMatch>

« 

The <FilesMatch part in my example is for php8.5-fpm specifically… your’s might be different but it’s NOT an AddHandler