title: Why are my php tags converted to html comments?
body: <p>A friend's lamp host seems to be misconfigured. I try to execute php, but it doesn't seem to be working.</p>
  
  <p>In Chrome's inspect element:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo 'test'; ?&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>becomes :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!--?php echo 'test'; ?--&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Furthermore, its been triggering a file download, rather than opening it as a webpage.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried various code in an <code>.htaccess</code> file, but it doesn't seem to have any effect:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
  AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
  </code></pre>