Apache is downloading php files instead of displaying them

Question

OS and server information:

• CentOS 6.4 (Final)
• Apache 2.2.15
• PHP 5.5.1

I previously had php 5.3.x installed but decided to upgr

Answer 1

I previously has a similar issue, after upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. But my setup looks a little bit different as that I'm running Debian and using fcgid to server the PHP pages, and not the PHP5 apache/cgi module. So after I upgraded, it also installed php5_cgi, which collided with my fcgid setup, and would not execute PHP files anymore.

I had to disable the Apache Module and restart Apache

a2dismod php5_cgi
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Once the php5_cgi module was out of the way, fcgid was able to serve PHP pages again.