: In httpd.conf why would you want AddType for phps? We have an AddType as follows: AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps I was wondering what this was, and did some searching. It seems

@Ogunnowo487

loading that file displays the php source instead


With syntax highlighting. The same as if you had called PHP's highlight_file() function on that file.

It's just a feature if you need to quickly document some code. Many sites display syntax highlighted code on their blogs etc. PHP has this built-in if you need it.

If you don't need it, remove it.


could be a security issue.


Don't give your files a ".phps" extension! :) To be honest, if your site is sufficiently hacked to be able to rename your files then you've probably got more serious things to worry about. Any PHP files that contain sensitive information should be stored outside of the document root.

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