Absolute Beginner Problem

[jeffcoffman]

I have Apache installed and I just put PHP on my machine. I created a test file ("phpinfo.php"):

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

When I type http://localhost/phpinfo.php into the browser, I get the three lines of code as seen above.

Please don't flame me, I have read most previous posts and have found nothing to help (I could have overlooked the answer).

Thanks!
Jeff

[Mark_Nordstrom]

php must not be working.

[zalath]

Did you configure apache to use php? if not, see the INSTALL instructions file in the PHP base directory.

[coditoergosum]

Basically, you need to add these three lines to your httpd.conf file, in it's respective section:

LoadModule php4_module c:/path/to/php4apache.dll 
AddModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

These are optional, but handy:

AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps 
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

Note: That config is for windows.