WebDAV Incorrectly Opening PHP Files

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I'm not sure if this is the right StackExchange site to ask this on, but I think it's the closest related to the topic.

I'm running a WebDAV server using Apache's mod_dav on Linux (Ubuntu). I've successfully connected to it with Windows 7. However, when I open the PHP files in an editor, I don't get their source code, but instead their output. Other files, including images, open correctly. Is there any way to fix this issue?

My Apache config:

<Location /webdav/>
        DAV On
        AuthType Digest
        AuthName "WebDAV"
        AuthDigestDomain /webdav/
        AuthDigestProvider file
        AuthUserFile /var/www/webdav/.htdigest
        Require valid-user
</Location>

Best Answer

Remove content type associations for PHP files:

RemoveType .php

If it doesn't work, remove handler:

RemoveHandler .php
ForceType text/plain

or disable PHP:

php_flag engine off

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I recently struggled with the same problem on my Fedora 10 system. In my case the culprit was some odd redirection that I was doing in Apache. Specifically, I use a content management system (Drupal, to be exact) that within it's .htaccess includes the following redirection logic to redirect missing files to a PHP script:

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

It makes sense that the above only affects the PUT method since in that case REQUEST_FILENAME does not exist.

Not having the WebDAV area inside of the Drupal area, which seems like a reasonable constraint, fixes the problem.

Also, I think it is likely that SELinux would result in a different error, but it's not mentioned in the discussion above. Did you try disabling SELinux?

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Add this to your apache config file below the DocumentRoot directive.

<FilesMatch '^\.[Dd][Ss]_[Ss]'>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch '\.[Dd][Bb]'>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

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