Browser is running files instead of downloading

 · Select "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" Select "Open With" and click "Browse" Select "Connection Manager" Edge Browser: Navigate to the Citrix Workspace Store or Citrix Storefront Store; Select the resource you are trying to access - Application or Desktop; Edge automatically saves the file to the downloads folder by default.  · Solved: Chrome downloading file instead of displaying page by Finn Espen Gundersen on June 17th, A lot of developers are experiencing the same problem: while all other browsers display your latest web creation perfectly, Chrome just downloads the script source file – yes, source.  · i am so sick of chrome automatically downloading files instead of opening them in my browser. a few months back this was not an issue. I have the setting off, and the browser still forces me to download the file. After downloading it I can click on the downloaded file inside Chrome and it opens fine in the web browser.

Instead it offers to save to file/asks what program to open it with. Interestingly though that dialog box does recognise that it is a php file. I have the following version of php installed on the system. Copy. Copy. It will give you a list of all of the enabled Apache modules. Also, it is quite unusual that it works with the topfind247.co file and not with your index file. When you create the info php file and visit it via your browser what is the Server API value as shown here: Regards, Bobby. Reply Report. I am using XAMPP for Linux, but when I try to open a PHP file saved in a folder saved in home directory, the browser downloads the PHP file instead of displaying it. What could be the problem? XAMPP Status is: Component Status Hint MySQL database ACTIVATED PHP ACTIVATED Perl ACTIVATED Common Gateway Interface (CGI) ACTIVATED Server Side Includes (SSI) ACTIVATED PHP extension»OPcache.

It's also possible that you have nginx running but your php is set up to run with apache. To verify, run service nginx status and service apache2 status to see which is running. In the case that nginx is running and apache is not, just run sudo service nginx stop; sudo service apache2 start and your server will now serve php files as expected. The most common sever is php with Apache you must set this server up and start running them with your code in the appropriate folder in most cases the public html folder. Once the server is up and running just enter localhost into your browser url bar, and the topfind247.co file should be automatically open. Select "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" Select "Open With" and click "Browse" Select "Connection Manager" Edge Browser: Navigate to the Citrix Workspace Store or Citrix Storefront Store; Select the resource you are trying to access - Application or Desktop; Edge automatically saves the file to the downloads folder by default.