Server Configuration : request for help
 

<div>Since migrating our site over to our new host we are having problems with PHP not executing correctly. The front page (index.php) appears OK but whenever I try to login I get a file download pop up appear asking me to download login.php rather than executing the code.

I am starting to think this is a PHP/Apache configuration issue but I really don't know how to fix it.

I know that our version of vBulletin is somewhat out of date now but I want to get the forum up and running on the new server before attempting the upgrade.

Please help, we only have a few days left on our contract with our current hosting company so I need to get this working soon before our old server gets turned off.

Here is the requested info:

1. Dedicated
2. Server specs:

cpu speed/type single or dual cpus: Dual Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz
how much memory installed: 2GB RAM
hard drive type/configuration: 250GB non raid
linux distributor or windows version: CentOS release 5.3
apache/IIS version: Apache 2.2.11
PHP version: php 5.2.8
MySQL version: mysql 5.1.31

3. vBulletin Version 3.5.3

4. N/A
5. Sorry, I have no idea how mysql was compiled/installed.
6.

top - 22:25:59 up 31 days, 9:41, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 106 total, 1 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2074048k total, 2009576k used, 64472k free, 116172k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 172k used, 2096268k free, 1713652k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22015 root 15 0 2200 1020 800 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.08 top
1 root 15 0 2064 588 512 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.44 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 kblockd/0
16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/1
17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
145 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue/0
146 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue/1
149 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
151 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
221 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:14.63 kswapd0
222 root 17 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
223 root 17 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
388 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
420 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
425 root 13 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
426 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:46.23 usb-storage
428 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.06 kjournald
455 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kauditd
1593 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 AAC
1679 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd/0
1680 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd/1
1712 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:17.93 kjournald
1714 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald
1716 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.84 kjournald
1718 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.49 kjournald
1919 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kondemand/0
1920 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kondemand/1
2290 root 18 0 1716 576 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.30 syslogd


7.

# Example MySQL config file for medium systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together with
# other programs (such as a web server)
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is /usr/local/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.
# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
# Here follows entries for some specific programs
# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
max_connections = 2000
# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking
# Disable Federated by default
skip-federated
# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
#log-bin=mysql-bin
# binary logging format - mixed recommended
#binlog_format=mixed
# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
# but will not function as a master if omitted
server-id = 1
# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)
#
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between
# two methods :
#
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -
# the syntax is:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=, MASTER_PORT=,
# MASTER_USER=, MASTER_PASSWORD= ;
#
# where you replace , , by quoted strings and
# by the master's port number (3306 by default).
#
# Example:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,
# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';
#
# OR
#
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then
# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example
# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to
# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later
# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and
# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown
# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.
# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched
# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)
#
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1
# (and different from the master)
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set
# but will not function as a slave if omitted
#server-id = 2
#
# The replication master for this slave - required
#master-host =
#
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting
# to the master - required
#master-user =
#
# The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to
# the master - required
#master-password =
#
# The port the master is listening on.
# optional - defaults to 3306
#master-port =
#
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended
#log-bin=mysql-bin
# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
#tmpdir = /tmp/
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname
# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates
[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout


8.

<font size="2">+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| auto_increment_increment | 1 |
| auto_increment_offset | 1 |
| autocommit | ON |
| automatic_sp_privileges | ON |
| back_log | 50 |
| basedir | /usr/local/mysql/ |
| big_tables | OFF |
| binlog_cache_size | 32768 |
| binlog_format | STATEMENT |
| bulk_insert_buffer_size | 8388608 |
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/local/mysql/share/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |
| completion_type | 0 |
| concurrent_insert | 1 |
| connect_timeout | 10 |
| datadir | /home/mysql/ |
| date_format | %Y-%m-%d |
| datetime_format | %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s |
| default_week_format | 0 |
| delay_key_write | ON |
| delayed_insert_limit | 100 |
| delayed_insert_timeout | 300 |
| delayed_queue_size | 1000 |
| div_precision_increment | 4 |
| engine_condition_pushdown | ON |
| error_count | 0 |
| event_scheduler | OFF |
| expire_logs_days | 0 |
| flush | OFF |
| flush_time | 0 |
| foreign_key_checks | ON |
| ft_boolean_syntax | + ->