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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:54:33 +0200
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On 14-07-2012 06:21, Ryan wrote:
> I want a php script to run and simply output nothing.  But even this script:
> 
> <?php
> ?>
> 
> will output this html
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
> 
> Is there a setting somewhere in my php or apache config that needs to be turned off?
> 

no, PHP will not output what you said.

The output you see is generated by apache.....

~/tmp> cat empty.php
<?php
?>
~/tmp> php -f empty.php
~/tmp>