[pmwiki-users] New installation of pmwiki in /home/user/public_html/ with apache and php7.2

[Christopher Pinon]

On 2018-06-24 14:43, Christopher Pinon wrote:
> On 2018-06-24 14:26, Petko Yotov wrote:
>> In a default Ubuntu/Apache installation, the user directories have PHP
>> disabled. So the server sends to the browser the pmwiki.php file as if
>> it was a HTML file, then at some place there is a html meta redirect
>> with some unprocessed PHP variable which the browser follows. You see
>> a flicker in a split second before the redirect.
>> 
>> You need to edit the apache2 conf file and restart the server.
>> 
>> Edit as root this file:
>>   /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.2.conf
>> 
>> Find the line "php_admin_flag engine Off" and replace "Off" with "On".
>> Save the file then restart Apache:
>> 
>>   sudo service apache2 restart
>> 
>> (or whatever other line is used, or if you don't know restart the 
>> whole server).
>> 
>> I'm not sure why Dokuwiki works.
> 
> Thanks. I'm aware that Ubuntu/Apache has PHP disabled by default for
> user directories, and I had commented out that section of
> /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.2.conf. PHP scripts (e.g., phpinfo.php)
> can be run in this user directory, not to mention dokuwiki, which is
> why I'm puzzled.
> 
> Instead of commenting out that section, I'll try to leave it but with
> "On" instead of "Off", as you suggest.

Unfortunately, turning "Off" to "On" here doesn't make a difference, 
which is not too surprising given that I had already commented out this 
section of php7.2.conf (which didn't help). Again, Apache can run PHP 
scripts in this user directory, including DokuWiki.

Nevertheless, I guess that the problem is due to something in Ubuntu's 
Apache configuration ...

C.