Having a problem with the moved site that is stumping me. On the old site befoe I moved I had modified the .htaccess file with the following ,

<Files dbn>
AcceptPathInfo on
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>

DirectoryIndex dbn index index.php index.shtml index.html index.htm

using the exact same .htaccess file on the new server,

It reads the file first as sepcified however it is not recognizing it as php.

Is ther something else that need to be setup?

Check to see what version of Apache they are using, the specified info above is for a server running Apache v.2, if they are running Apache v1 the information is different, but layed out in the EE manual on what to use for Apache 1 vs Apache 2.

Its Apache version 2.0.53…

Wierd huh?

I’d contact the Host and ask them what you should use in the .htaccess file to force a particular file to be parsed as PHP.

That would be me, unfortunately:>)

Like I said, it works with exactly the same file on the old server.

However, I am using a new control panel software on this server and aparently they have it set up to invoke php as a cgi program rather than a server module.

Is there any considerations for doing so? Should I change the overall server setup?

Well, if you have the option to run PHP as a module rather than a CGI process I’d definitely recommend doing so.  It’s almost universally a better choice and easier to work with with fewer limitations.

I think the instructions mention something you can try for PHP as CGI, though.

Yep, I got it working with the set handler

<Files dbn>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

I’ve got a question into interworx…

BTW, I ran this

php_sapi_name and verified that it is not running as a cgi.

Which makes sense because I knew I was not invoking it as such and could not find any redirects, etc in any of the apache config files.

Thinking that the input/output filters have been replaced with the SetHandler application/x-httpd-php directive.

However, I checked the change logs for apache and cannot find any indication of such, setinputfilter and setoutputfilter were added in 2.011.

I don’t know what’s up…