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[chungsunghoy]

everytime i click a php link it wants to download the source, and not open it in IE, how do i fix this..?

[ffeingol]

Sounds like the server is not configured for PHP. Since it's not, your browser does not know what to do with the .php file.

Frank

[rami90_999]

Yep as ffeingol said.. ur server is not configured to understand PHP files so it ask you to download them.. like when u try to run a file where the program which runs it is not there

[ghost]

Normal HTML files contains 2 parts, 1 is Header and 2 is the part you can see in your browser. And Normally PHP files only a standard text files. If your server does not compile your PHP files and does not produce Header your browser gets it as a text file and tries to download.

Check the PHP conditions of your server. Don't forget PHP is server side language, that means every problem would be on your server.

[ninji]

either the servers mime.types file is confilicting, or dosent know what php is or the more likely scenario they didnt add the .php filetype to httpd.conf

[prosayist]

.htaccess:
DefaultType application/x-httpd-php
(or)
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

[Tox]

I have experienced this after upgrading to Internet Explorer 6.0. A few PHP links started to do this but 99 % of the PHP coding works fine.

[ghost]

Originally posted by Tox
I have experienced this after upgrading to Internet Explorer 6.0. A few PHP links started to do this but 99 % of the PHP coding works fine.

I have been using IE 6 too. But I have been never experienced any problem like this. Would you tell me an URL you are living that problem?