Getting blank PHP page over Apache

Question

In a newly setup digitalOcean cloud server (CentOS), I have installed php and Apache. The webserver is running fine:

[root@a2m5cent01 httpd]# service httpd s         


        

Answer 1

I think your php installation with apache is faulty. Thats why you can not see any php page in your webserver. Clean remove all the existing apps, like httpd,php,php-fpm,php-cli etc. and try to clean isntall in this order

yum install httpd -y
yum install php php-common php-cli php-gd php-curl php-fpm -y

then make sure you restart yout httpd server.

service httpd restart

Install mod_fastcgi:

yum install  mod_fastcgi

Start the service:

service php-fpm start

Restart Apache:

service httpd restart

5. Configuration of Apache with PHP-FPM

Open the fastcgi.conf file:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf

Add this to the end of the file:

                DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.php
                AddHandler php5-fcgi .php
                Action php5-fcgi /php5-fcgi
                Alias /php5-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi
                FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:9000 -pass-header Authorization

After that search after "FastCgiWrapper" and make sure it's set to "off" then save the file.

The /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory must exist, so we create it:

mkdir /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ 

If mod_php is installed and enabled, we need to disable it so open the configuration at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

Comment out the AddHandler and AddType lines so it looks like here:

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#

  LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so


  LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5-zts.so

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
#AddHandler php5-script .php
#AddType text/html .php
#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php
#
# Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print .phps
# files as PHP source code:
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Save the file and restart Apache:

service httpd restart