Some php files in same directory of working files with same permissions won't process

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On 11/3/06, John Vaughan <jjvaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever had this happen?  I upgraded phpMyAdmin (2.9.0.3) and
> suddenly the php files no longer were processed by the php engine --
> (Apache sends the php files as though they were a download).  I checked
> my permissions, php.ini and httpd.conf, nothing strange there -- same
> as when it worked.  I read UPDATING (I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE,
> Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6_1, MySQL 5.0.24a) and nothing there on it.
> Checked the phpMyAdmin site and nothing I could find there either.
>
> Here's the really odd part -- if I go to the phpmyadmin directory,
> create a php file with vi and save -- viola the new file works as
> expected.  What should I check next?
>
> To see what I am talking about go to:
> http://welcome.coe.jmu.edu/dbadmin/index.php
>
> and then go to
> http://welcome.coe.jmu.edu/dbadmin/test.php

Have you tried copying index.php to index2.php and then try to access
index.php??
What were the results?

-Jeff