Alias in PHP will not parse script

[rolo]

Hi,

I'm running a Plesk 7.5.4 server. Fedora Core 2 with PHP 4.4.1 installed from ART's rpms not minutes ago.

I want to have libraries stored in one domain and have other domains access them. I was being able to do this just fine on my previous dedicated server (without plesk) but now I can't. PHP files that are read from aliased directories don't get parsed and the browser shows a "download file" popup.

I added the following to this file /var/www/vhosts/otherdomain.com/conf/vhost.conf:

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Alias /scripts /var/www/vhosts/scriptsdomain.com/httpdocs/scripts

When I go to http://otherdomain.com/scripts/phpinfo.php, I get prompted to download the phpinfo.php file instead of seing its output.

So far I've tried symlinks and a whole bunch of <Directory> entries to no avail. Every time the file IS FOUND but not parsed and the whole source code is dumped to the browser.

How can I solve this?

Thanks,
Rolo

[breun]

Maybe you need a ScriptAlias instead of a normal Alias?

[rolo]

No, ScriptAlias is used for CGI stuff, but still I tried it too and it didn't work

Right now my problem is REALLY weird. I managed to get the scripts parsed with a mixture of +AllowSymlinks in vhosts.conf and a bunch of symlinks. The strange part is that some scripts got cached (or some reason I can't figure out) and get dumped to screen, but some others in the same dir don't. What's even better is that for the scripts that do get cached, if I pass any vars at all to them via GET, they are not cached.

Say the script test.php is one that is getting cached:

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http://www.domain.com/scripts/test.php

The above returns the source code for test.php

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http://www.domain.com/scripts/test.php?

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http://www.domain.com/scripts/test.php?blah

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http://www.domain.com/scripts/test.php?blah=blah

The above return the parsed output of test.php as it normally should.

I checked from my PC at work and from my Mac at home with identical results. I uploaded another test.php script with completely different code. The cached version shows the source code for the original test.php file, and the non cached version works as it should.

As I was writing this I got the idea that maybe this is a software bug. Restarting apache wasn't solving it. Maybe I need to restart the whole box.