installation help - .php open in text editor

[feelingsheepish]

Hi,
I have installed PHP with MySQL and Apache.
When i execute the test file (<? phpinfo(); ?>) via my localhost it opens in notepad.
Please help it's been driving me crazy.

Thanks in advance

[wildteen88]

You are going to http://localhost/ and then clicking on the file you want to run? If you are and its opening up within notepad then Apache appears to bemisconfigured. How have you configured Apache to parse PHP files with the PHP Intepreter? What tutorial did you follow to install Apache, PHP and MySQl.

[feelingsheepish]

Hi,
I am going to [u]http://localhost/test.php[/u] and the file is opening into notepad. I have used the tutorial in the book "php and mysql web development" to configure my web server. I included the following lines in my httpd config file.

LoadModule php5_module c:/php/php5apache.dll
AddModule mod_php5.c
AddType aqpplication/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"

I have used this tutorial in the past and everything has worked so don't understand why it is not working.

[wildteen88]

Did you restart Apache when you made the changes to the httpd.conf file. Also is Apache starting up with any errors/beeps? Other than that I cannot see why it is doing that.

[gudmunson]

[quote]AddType aqpplication/x-httpd-php .php[/quote]

Dunno if you saw this or have figured it out, but you misspelled application. That could cause your problem.