My website is not working any longer

Hi there,
I had a perfectly working website. Then I moved the entire folder with
all files onto another computer (I am hosting my own site) and now
things dont work too well. I know that all my pages ended with .php
extension but when I open any file with that extension in Safari I
only get a page full of text characters. Oddly, when I rename the
extension to .html then the page loads fine in Safari. This is
bizarre. Should I go an manually rename all pages in my webfolder to
html extension? Will this screw up some links? As you can tell by now
I have no idea about web programming but I feel this must be a very
simple fix as everything was working before. Any tips are greatly
appreciated. Kurt

Rik Wasmus

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March 12th, 2008
03:05 PM
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Re: My website is not working any longer

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:53:29 +0100, <biz@theplayspace.com.auwrote:

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Either PHP doesn't work (correctly), or default_mimetype
(<http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-mimetype>) is
screwed up, set it back to text/html.

What are the response headers from a *.php link?
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Joker7

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March 12th, 2008
05:25 PM
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Re: My website is not working any longer

In news: Join Bytes! - Rik Wasmus wrote :

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Originally Posted by

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Originally Posted by

>On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:53:29 +0100, <biz@theplayspace.com.auwrote:

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Originally Posted by

>>Hi there,
>>I had a perfectly working website. Then I moved the entire folder
>>with all files onto another computer (I am hosting my own site) and
>>now things dont work too well. I know that all my pages ended with
>>.php extension but when I open any file with that extension in
>>Safari I only get a page full of text characters. Oddly, when I
>>rename the extension to .html then the page loads fine in Safari.
>>This is bizarre. Should I go an manually rename all pages in my
>>webfolder to html extension? Will this screw up some links? As you
>>can tell by now I have no idea about web programming but I feel
>>this must be a very simple fix as everything was working before.
>>Any tips are greatly appreciated. Kurt

>>
>Either PHP doesn't work (correctly), or default_mimetype
>(<http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-mimetype>) is
>screwed up, set it back to text/html.
>>
>What are the response headers from a *.php link?
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>Rik Wasmus

What web server are you using ? You need to set the mime type.

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Tim Roberts

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March 15th, 2008
05:05 AM
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Re: My website is not working any longer

Join Bytes! wrote:

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Originally Posted by

>
>I had a perfectly working website. Then I moved the entire folder with
>all files onto another computer (I am hosting my own site) and now
>things dont work too well. I know that all my pages ended with .php
>extension but when I open any file with that extension in Safari I
>only get a page full of text characters. Oddly, when I rename the
>extension to .html then the page loads fine in Safari.

So, does that mean that the files don't actually contain any PHP code? None
of them have "<?php" in them?
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