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Solution to PHP script at home page is downloaded instead of executed

The issue is only at the website home page's PHP script has the download behaviour but the rest of the website pages' PHP script run normally. In this article will show two solutions. This issue is very hard to debug because there are no helpful logs that will give hint on solving this issue. Actually, I was debugging a "Permission denied" issue and the fixes I tried to apply to this resulted to our main topic issue. The web server setup: Nginx as reverse proxy to Apache and under a web hosting control panel.

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Setup alternative Twitter Bootstrap based Munin template

The Munin's generated web pages are very old fashioned and dull. Its design uses tables with small text and too much spaces. This guide will show how to change the Munin's template and should be continuation of Setup Munin on CentOS 7 with nginx. There will be two alternative Munin 2.x templates will be shown here:

1. Munin Dynamic Template

This alternative template uses jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap for Munin 1.x and 2.x versions that enhanced user experience and improve web pages' appearance. The following are the steps to setup this template:

Installing Monit to monitor your server running CentOS 7 with nginx

Monit can manage and monitor processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems of your UNIX server for you. You can program Monit to execute action for events like: service stops running or its using too much CPU or a host is unreachable. The following steps are tested running on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit. It is assumed that nginx is already installed in your system. If not, please follow this guide.

Setup Munin on CentOS 7 with nginx

Munin provides web interface showing graphs about your server's load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc. Although it lets you monitor more than one server, this article will discuss the monitoring of the system where it is installed. The following steps are tested running on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit. It is assumed that nginx is already installed in your system. If not, please follow this guide.

Install extension modules for PHP 5.6 created under Software Collections (multiple PHP versions in a system)

This article is the continuation of Running multiple PHP versions on CentOS 7 using Virtualmin. Some of us assumed that the additional PHP version in our systems inherits the extension modules installed for system version of the default PHP package installed from system distribution. Remember the two PHP versions installed are independent in respect to each other so we need to install another set of extension modules for our additional PHP version.

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