setting up PHP

[Feis]

Ok, Im trying to set up PHP on a linux machine so I can learn php. I downloaded xampp(lampp), ran the installation instructins, and I cant start it all just fine. After that, I have no idea how to make the php pages display in the web browser. If I name it .php and open it with firefox, it asks if I want to open it with a text editor. if I name it .html, it doesnt work. The one php file that does work is if I type http://localhost and thats from the xampp installation, and I dont even know where that is. I looked @ the php manual, but I wasnt able to glean an answer from there. Much Thanks

[redhead]

You should have enabled php support in apache, in your configuration file (usualy /etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf) in there you should have lines like:

...
LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
..
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
...
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
...
</IfModule>

And make sure your php files starts with <? or <?php and ends with ?> to verify what the php-engine should enterprit.

[teknomage1]

http://localhost is the same as http://localhost/index.html, to make other files be processed, save them in the same folder that the index page is and access them as http://localhost/new_file_name.php or whatever you called them. Try /var/www/htdocs.