PHP in Mac OS X : Shows up the PHP code when opening the page

PHP Source Code is being shown up when opening PHP page in my localhost. This looks strange to me. I'm using using PHP 5.3.1 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

$ php --version
PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Feb 28 2010 15:02:51) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Grou开发者_高级运维p
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

I'm running the default httpd webserver on my machine. The /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file has the following line to load php module:

LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

The httpd.conf file Syntax is OK.

$ httpd -t            
Syntax OK

am I missing something? Please suggest!

Thanks!

You need to add AddType to your server config:

AddType x-httpd-php .php

This can be added to the httpd.conf file, or even in an .htaccess file.

For OS X Yosemite 10.10 need to add:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

One possible reason why this is happening to you is because you're using short PHP tags <? instead of <?php

Either change that in all php files that are included or simply allow short PHP tags by adding short_open_tag=On in php.ini and then restart your apache server.