Dynamic Content and DAV

Alias /php /usr/local/apache/php_files Alias /php-source /usr/local/apache/php_files <Location /php-source>     DAV On     ForceType text/plain </Location>

When accessing resources that are dynamically generated, such as PHP pages or CGI scripts, you may run into a problem where Apache returns the dynamically generated content and not the source code for the file. In other words, you get the contents of the file after it has been processed by the web server and not the source code. To get around this, you can run a separate web server or virtual host that does not have PHP support enabled, as described in an earlier section.

Another method is to map the same file system path to different URLs and selectively enable or disable modules. The example, taken from the DAV documentation, shows how to do just that. It forces all content served through the /php-source URL to be of type text/plain, thus bypassing execution by the PHP engine.