AddType application/x-httpd-php .php is not rendering PHP

Question

Adding this code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php after

...
#AddEncoding x-compress .Z
#AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
#
# If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you
# probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:
#
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

to C:\Apache24\bin\httpd.conf downloads all PHP pages on my system rather than render it.

Before then, the PHP pages were parsed as raw text.

Help needed!

Answer 1

There are two problems:

1. application/x-httpd-php is not a MIME type, but rather a handler. That means your directive must be AddHandler instead of AddType

2. application/x-httpd-php is not a valid handler. The handler must include the PHP version digits at the end of the string

Putting that altogether, assuming, say PHP version 7.2, what you want is

   ✅ AddHandler application/x-httpd-php72 .php instead of
   🚫 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php