由SVG引起的PHP Parse错误

Question

I have this SVG on the server. Everything is fine, until I try to use PHP to include it into my page. When I do that, it causes 503 errors to appear on all pages, not just the one I have the SVG included on. When I use rhc tail to see what's going on, I get this:

[Tue Nov 11 19:47:37 2014] [error] [client <ip>] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected 'encoding' (T_STRING) in /var/lib/openshift/<undisclosed>/app-root/runtime/repo/images/svg/monitor.svg on line 1

This does not happen on my local (Linux) server.

Answer 1

You have PHP short tags enabled, so it's trying to parse it as a PHP file.

You can disable this in a number of ways. php.ini is your best option: http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag