I happened to setup a Joomla site from other hosting (zipped Joomla files and mysqldump), and after the setup on our server I got the error (below) - not exactly an error but a contents of “index.php” file. I found few Joomla related discussion regarding this issue but there’s no solution. mark( 'afterLoad' ) : null; /** * CREATE THE APPLICATION * * NOTE : */ $mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site'); /** * INITIALISE THE APPLICATION * * NOTE : */ // set the ...... JDEBUG ? $_PROFILER->mark('afterRender') : null; $mainframe->triggerEvent('onAfterRender'); /** * RETURN THE RESPONSE */ echo JResponse::toString($mainframe->getCfg('gzip'));

I found the problem on “.htaccess” file as it contain a line “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php”. I commented out the line because I think it is related to parsing PHP files and this solved my problem. I searched for this code and it is related to servers with PHP 4 and 5 installed - details below from 1and1 hosting.

By default Apache uses PHP 4 for .php extension. If you don’t want to rename all your scripts to .php5 you can do the following: Create a .htaccess file and place the following line AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in it.

This will tell Apache to use PHP 5 instead of PHP 4 for the extension .php in the directory the .htaccess is placed and all sub-directories under it.

You can use AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php as an alternative for or instead of AddType x-mapp-php5 .php