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Is there a way to tell Apache2 to ignore shebang line? I need to write PHP code on my Windows machine (xampp-win32-1.5.1 on Windows XP SP2) and publish it on a web server under Linux with mandatory #!/usr/local/bin/php at the begining of each PHP file.

I've played with Windows Registry and ScriptInterpreterSource in httpd.conf, later saw that XAMPP-Apache2 uses PHP as a module and tried to switch it to CGI mode from apache/conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf, but with no success (I'm not really into Apache/PHP administration) — the damn shebang line always gets shown in browser on Windows.

Is the #! line terminated with a LF (Unix line terminator), rather than a CR-LF (Windows line terminator)? That could be why Windows is displaying the line.

Yes it is, but it needs to be that way because of the Linux web server. Anyway, the line shows up even with CR-LF. It's really annoying, not only it breaks completely my CSS layout but also all the scripts that do some HTTP header processing. Could someone help please?

Is there a way to tell Apache2 to ignore shebang line? I need to write PHP code on my Windows machine (xampp-win32-1.5.1 on Windows XP SP2) and publish it on a web server under Linux with mandatory #!/usr/local/bin/php at the begining of each PHP file.

Then you must configure an use PHP as CGI and not with the Apache module, as on your Linux box.

It's not my Linux box actually, but I tried to configure Apache2 on Windows to run PHP as CGI instead of module — commented out LoadModule line and uncommented ScriptAlias and Action lines from $xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf. Now I do get "Error 403 Forbidden".

The exact error I'm getting in Apache log is "[error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: S:/apps/xampp/php/php-cgi.exe".