What is application/x-httpd-php civicrm.settings.php PHP script text

[ceford]

I have just upgraded a Joomla based site from 3.0.1 to 3.1.3. It was a long and complicated business involving downloading the site and database, repairing the database with dharma tools, upgrading and uploading again. There were hiccups along the way.

The downloaded (test) site seems to work fine, except that I can't change the Directory path and URL (documented as a Joomla related problem elsewhere). The uploaded production site seems to work mostly too. Except that the Dashboard spinner keeps spinning and below the CiviCRM menu I always get the mysterious line: 'application/x-httpd-php civicrm.settings.php PHP script text'. That appears in other places too. Like if I click on Email Add in the New Individual form it appears before the new email box. The AJAX individual look-up in the menu bar works fine.

I just don't know where I should start to solve this problem. Is it Installation, Configuration, Service Provider, or what? Can someone point me in the right direction. I don't want to make new entries until I know what is going on.

Cliff

Do I need to specify: Linux, PHP 5.2.8, Joomla 1.5.14, Apache 1.3.41 (production) 2.2.12 (test).

[lcdweb]

try running this link:
/administrator/index2.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/setting/updateConfigBackend&reset=1

that may be sufficient. but if not, there are patches to address the update url issue:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-5910?page=com.atlassian.jira.ext.fisheye:fisheye-issuepanel

see the fisheye tab at the bottom. try implementing that and saving settings on that page.

[ceford]

Thanks for trying to help. I had tried everything in the documentation, and everything else I could think of. I have now found the cause of the problem:

That piece of text was at the top of the civicrm.settings.php files, both of them, before the opening <?php and I have no idea how it came to be that way! Did my fingers slip during editing, or did one of the civicrm scripts do it?

Anyway, problem solved.

Cliff