Internval Server Error

[Anon]

I am a Linux newbie, but I have quite a bit of experience running PHP on Windows.

I have installed RedHat 7.1 and had the install program install Apache and PHP.

When I try to create a PHP file in the default html directory (/var/www/html), it just displays the code in the browser. Ie:
<?
echo "test";
?>

When I try to create a PHP file in the cgi-bin directory (/var/www/cgi-bin), I get this error: 500 Internal Server Error.

I've tried CHMOD 755 and putting the #!/usr/bin/php as the first line, but it doesn't work. Am I missing something?

[Anon]

You cannot put php scripts into your cgi-bin directory (or at least i dont think you can).
Check whether you have got php installed correctly and that you have got the file extension as .php .