index.php homepage help

[james7801]

hello everyone,

my problem is i want to create a simpe homepage with php on,
so ive writen the very simple piece of code (hello world) and saved the file as index.php

when i use a browser to go to the page its asked me to open the file which is a application/x-httpd-php then i can either download or open with

arrgh so what do i need to change to allow me to save index.php so it can be browsed at

ive had a go at adding <DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm example.php> to the httpd file like so

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxx>
ServerName xxx.xx:x
ServerAlias xxx.xx.x
UseCanonicalName Off
ServerAdmin "x"
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/x/httpdocs
CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/x/statistics/logs/access_log plesklog
ErrorLog /var/www/vhosts/x/statistics/logs/error_log
<DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm example.php>

but no luck so any help would be amazing thanks james

[bradgrafelman]

What you haven't done is integrate PHP with Apache. Read the manual for instructions on how to install PHP: [man]install.windows.apache2[/man]. The most preferred method is to install PHP as an Apache module (DLL).

[james7801]

sorry i should mentioned my enviroment

i running my files on a pipex vps on Ubuntu 6.06 installed with php 5.0 and i already have domains with the index.php format (from an old webdesigner)

[xiang_sky]

edit here
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

u can chagen index.html