My problem seems very similar to other ones around PHP installation one can find on the www but I tried dozens of solutions, none worked at the end.
A few days ago, I installed CentOS 8 (for the first time) on a Xeon server... I never encountered problems with CentOS 6 but now I'm stuck with this CentOS 8. The short version is : PHP is installed, enabled, works but does not read .php files as php (does it as html)
Here is what I did, step by step :
Installed Apache : sudo dnf install httpd
Installed Firewalld : sudo dnf install firewalld
sudo systemctl enable firewalld
sudo systemctl start firewalld
Checked Firewalld : sudo firewall-cmd --state
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=10000/tcp --zone=public --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Installed Apache mod_ssl : sudo dnf install httpd mod_ssl
Started web server : sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl status httpd
Installed MySql : sudo dnf install mysql-server
sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
sudo systemctl status mysqld
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Installed wget : sudo yum search wget
sudo yum install wget
Installed Webmin :
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/weba ... noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install perl perl-Net-SSLeay openssl perl-Encode-Detect
sudo rpm -Uvh webmin-1.984-1.noarch.rpm
sudo systemctl enable webmin
At this point, I tried to access Webmin via ipaddress:80 , and it did not work, I did not notice that the previous command gave the (strange) address to use... So I did :
sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
sudo service iptables save
sudo /etc/init.d/webmin restart
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Installed Vim : sudo dnf search vim
sudo dnf install vim-enhanced
alias vi='vim'
Configured Webmin : sudo /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
At this point, I uninstalled Webmin & reinstalled it, found the right address to use...
I created Virtual Hosts
Then did : yum install epel-release
Installed Snapd : sudo dnf install snapd
sudo systemctl enable snapd.socket --now
Installed Certbot (SSL) : sudo snap install core; sudo snap refresh core
sudo dnf remove certbot
sudo yum remove certbot
sudo snap install --classic certbot
sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot
sudo certbot --apache
Winter is coming : sudo yum module list php (php 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 installed but I did not even try to read a .php file)
I had to try to install PHP 5.6 for an old website
sudo yum install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install php56
sudo yum module list php (php 5.6 does not appear)
sudo yum search php (php 5.6 appears...)
sudo find / -name php.ini
I needed a recent version of PHP as well :
sudo dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm -y
sudo dnf module enable php:remi-7.4
Php did not start... sudo systemctl restart httpd.service does not help...
Installed PHP 8.1 :
sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install php81
Tried with dnf :
sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/e ... noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
sudo dnf module list php
sudo dnf module enable php:remi-8.0 -y
sudo yum install php-cli
php -v (php now works in command line but does not read .php files)
Tried to edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/php81-php.conf
php -r 'echo "Hello World!n";' (ok)
apachectl -M (no php module there)
yum install php
apachectl -M | grep -i php
Got "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using nsxxxxxx.ip-xx-xx-xx.eu. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message" , so I changed ServerName in httpd.conf, uncommented the line. No more error message
I tried to uninstall php : yum remove php , yum install php ... now there is /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
sudo systemctl start php-fpm
sudo yum module list php
sudo yum module reset php
sudo yum module enable php:remi-8.1
sudo systemctl reload httpd
yum list installed | grep php (I can see php 5.6 & 8.1)
yum -y remove php* (removed all versions)
And again : sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install php81
sudo yum install php-cli
php -v (php 8.1)
Restarted Apache, now I get 503 Service Unavailable when reading .php files... I did not find any working solution on the www.
yum -y remove php*
yum install php (php 8.1, restart Apache, still 503)
sudo dnf module list php (php 8.1 enabled)
sudo dnf module reset php (no more php enabled)
sudo dnf module enable php:7.2 (php 7.2 enabled but php -v gives 8.1)
Reinstalled Apache : sudo dnf remove httpd
sudo dnf install httpd
sudo dnf install httpd mod_ssl
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo dnf module reset php
sudo dnf module install php:remi-8.1
Recreated Virtual Hosts, certbot again : sudo certbot --apache
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo dnf module list php gives :
Last metadata expiration check: 2:04:29 ago on Thu 27 Jan 2022 09:00:13 PM UTC.
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream
Name Stream Profiles Summary
php 7.2 [d] common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php 7.3 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php 7.4 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
Remi's Modular repository for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
Name Stream Profiles Summary
php remi-7.2 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-7.3 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-7.4 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-8.0 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-8.1 [e] common [d] [ i], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [x]disabled, [ i]nstalled
Now php 8.1 is enabled & installed... but still does not read .php files (readed as html)
apachectl -M (or) apachectl -M | grep -i php (no module php)
sudo journalctl -xe
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf (via Webmin)
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (is ok)
sudo dnf install php php-cli php-common
At this point I tried to change the files rights, owner & place (/home/website or /var/www/)
I tried all solutions I found... I am really stuck... What did I miss ? Any idea?
Many thanks in advance... Cheers!
