We found a similiar problem, but not due to access rights. When starting the browse action, the pop-up window opens the php file in a text editor. Please see images above..

Browser: Firefox 27.0.1.

rfaber, can you reproduce your issue in the demo?

jjxice46, which browser are you using?

This issue for me happens in chrome 33.0.1750.154m

jjxice46, I cannot reproduce. Can you reproduce the issue using our demo installation? If yes please let me know the exact steps.

rfaber: I am pretty sure that your problem is a server misconfiguration.

Yes i can reproduce on the demo server. The exact steps i am dong are:

Login to demo site
Create new survey
Give survey title but do not fill in any other section (such as welcome, description etc.)
click save
click on survey properites and go to edit text elements
go to any of the text areas (such as welcome, descritption etc) and click on the image button in the editor
under the image info click on browse server, OR click on the upload tab and try to upload an image

after that you will get the error.

let me know if this helps

@rfaber

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15270389/kcfinder-browse-php-downloading-rather-than-displaying-page

.htaccess in the thirdparty/kcfinder seems to be the problem

third_party/kcfinder turns out to have the .htaccess file copied from the third_party/kcfinder/upload

I don't know how that happended, but by doing a quick scan of the code it can be that kcfinder copied it in itself maybe due to some configuration bugs in the past.

To fix the problem, delete the file /third_part/kcfinder/.htaccess

@jjxice46: Permission problem on demo is ok I think, I think that optio was disabled on purpose. On your own server, check the permissions on the /upload/surveys/xxxx (where xxx is the id of the survey). It should be writable by the webserver.

@mdekker: I set permissions to allow full control to everything and i still get the error, i haven't tested on Linux yet as our primary server is windows server 2012.

If it is a windows server then it is a configuration issue of IIS most probably. You have to make sure that the full /upload directory (and subdir) has full permissions to be written by the webserver.

So i installed limesurvey on our linux machine and i cant reproduce the error on that machine so im fairly confident something has happened witht he windows permissions, ill try to figure it out but i am pretty confident that its not limesurvey at this point. I thank you all for looking into this and i apologize for not testing on linux, usually i dont end up doing this unless its something strange like this case.

No problem.