Why is my forum downloading the pages instead of displaying them?

 

https://reelboating.com/forums

Please contact your hosting provider or server administrator for assistance as this is an error in your configuration, I’m afraid. 

Forum only downloads when linked.  Pages wont open in browser.  I made no changes.

http://reelboating.com/forums

Cannot access any pages.  They only download.

<?php
/**
 * @brief        Public bootstrap
 * @author        <a href='https://www.invisioncommunity.com'>Invision Power Services, Inc.</a>
 * @copyright    (c) Invision Power Services, Inc.
 * @license       https://www.invisioncommunity.com/legal/standards/
 * @package        Invision Community
 * @since        18 Feb 2013
 */ 
\define('REPORT_EXCEPTIONS', TRUE);
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']    = __FILE__;
require_once 'init.php';
\IPS\Dispatcher\Front::i()->run();

 

Please contact your hosting provider or server administrator for assistance as this is an error in your configuration, I’m afraid. 

I’ve merged your two topics on this, please see the quoted reply. 

A Jim noted, this is an issue your hosting provider will have to address.  Apache/PHP is not configured properly on your server.  It's not passing the request through the PHP parser and instead is just delivering the raw file.  Most likely your host does not have the PHP module properly loaded into the Apache config.  

This is not a problem with the software itself so there is nothing we can do to fix this particular problem.  

For those who might encounter a similar problem the issue was the forum URLS are blocked by the Modsecurity rule and needed to be whitelisted

Glad to hear you and your host got the problem resolved. 🙂