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For a project I'm working on I need to provide the user with file downloads and this may be php files. Now I want to stop apache from parsing these files as php files (prevent apache from running the actual php code) and send them as a file download. (so the user will download a .php file instead of having a html file as output in the browser) how can i do this?

FOR EXAMPLE:

when you visit
http://www.2shared.com/

and you upload a php and you download it you will just download the php script. This is what i want...

Simply disable PHP in httpd.conf - look for "php" in httpd.conf and delete the related lines.

but it should only be applied to files in 1 certain directory for all other files php should be allowed...

The easiest way is to create a .htaccess file in the directory you wish to disable PHP.

and when you upload a txt file on http://www.2shared.com you will download a .txt file instead of showing it in the browser (what usually would happen) how can this be done?