KCFinder - browse.php downloading rather than displaying page - php

Question

I've integrated the latest version of KCFinder into CKEditor - whenever I click the 'Browse Server' button on the CKEditor toolbar it opens the KCFinder dialog box and downloads the 'browse.php' file rather than display the contents of a directory.
It is almost as if for some reason the PHP engine stops working temporarily - i've not modified any of the htaccess files.
I'm currently using the standard config.php within the kcfinder directory - would anyone know what may have caused this and how to fix it?
// kcfinder/config.php
$_CONFIG = array(
'disabled' => true,
'denyZipDownload' => false,
'denyUpdateCheck' => false,
'denyExtensionRename' => false,
'theme' => "oxygen",
'uploadURL' => "",
'uploadDir' => "",
'dirPerms' => 0755,
'filePerms' => 0644,
'access' => array(
'files' => array(
'upload' => true,
'delete' => true,
'copy' => true,
'move' => true,
'rename' => true
),
'dirs' => array(
'create' => true,
'delete' => true,
'rename' => true
)
),
'deniedExts' => "exe com msi bat php phps phtml php3 php4 cgi pl",
'types' => array(
// CKEditor & FCKEditor types
'files' => "",
'flash' => "swf",
'images' => "*img",
// TinyMCE types
'file' => "",
'media' => "swf flv avi mpg mpeg qt mov wmv asf rm",
'image' => "*img",
),
'filenameChangeChars' => array(/*
' ' => "_",
':' => "."
*/),
'dirnameChangeChars' => array(/*
' ' => "_",
':' => "."
*/),
'mime_magic' => "",
'maxImageWidth' => 0,
'maxImageHeight' => 0,
'thumbWidth' => 100,
'thumbHeight' => 100,
'thumbsDir' => ".thumbs",
'jpegQuality' => 90,
'cookieDomain' => "",
'cookiePath' => "",
'cookiePrefix' => 'KCFINDER_',
// THE FOLLOWING SETTINGS CANNOT BE OVERRIDED WITH SESSION CONFIGURATION
'_check4htaccess' => true,
//'_tinyMCEPath' => "/tiny_mce",
'_sessionVar' => &$_SESSION['KCFINDER'],
//'_sessionLifetime' => 30,
//'_sessionDir' => "/full/directory/path",
//'_sessionDomain' => ".mysite.com",
//'_sessionPath' => "/my/path",
);
?>

Answer 1

I got the same problem and I found that the .htaccess file in the kcfinder dir was precisely shut the php engine off. I removed the .htaccess file and then it worked. I do not understand why this shutting off was necessary. Security??
Well, I still get a problem to point at the right directory, but now I see something !!
One comment here about the CONFIG array here above. The attribute disabled have to be put to false, and it is often suggested to be done through a SESSION variable (put $_SESSION['KCFINDER'] = array();
$_SESSION['KCFINDER']['disabled'] = false; after the session_start() ), and not directly in the config file.