295816 - failing to load correctly localhost

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[paolobenve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

I installed apache on my pc.

I entered the url "localhost/index.php" before installing php, and it gave me
error, asking me what I wanted to do with that php file.

After installing php, the same errore continued, inexpectedly. I.e.: the browser
kept asking me whether to save or open the file.

I could solve it only clearing the browser cache: after that, the php page was
interpreted correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Aaron Slunt]

This is not a firefox problem, but instead with apache.

Do you have PHP already installed?

Follow the instructions here: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml

If you use php5, then search for php5 installation instructions instead. Oh, and
since I run a server myself, I can say:

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's an apache bug. Mozilla/Firefox stores the file with the mime-type unless
apache reports that the file changed and it doesn't that if only the mime-type
changed.

And please also reproduce bugs with a build from Mozilla.org before you report a
bug because we don't accept third#party builds like debian because they add own
patches.