Mandrake 8.1 - Php & MySQL install ???

Anon

I am a newbie to Linux. I am trying to setup a dedicated Linux box(PII-233, 128 MB RAM & 8 GB HD) as a web developer workstation/server using Mandrake 8.1 running Php & MySQL with Apache. When I installed Mandrake I installed Apache and MySQL. I have installed using Package Manager the following RPMs from the installation CDs:
mod_php,
MySQL_php,
common_php,
php_devel,
MySQl_devel.

When I run <?php phpinfo() ?> in Netscape I get <?php phpinfo() ?> back in the page from Netscape.

What am I missing or doing wrong? Any suggestions or input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-r

Anon

I hope you're viewing that page at http://localhost/pagename.php and not file:///somepath/pagename.php. The former will be delivered by Apache (if it is running) and the latter will be opened directly by your Web browser.

Make certain that Apache is running. As root:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status

If it is not,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

To make sure httpd is started when you reboot the system, open the Mandrake Control Center,open the System widget, and click on Services. Find the appropriate item and check it. This will create the appropriate symbolic links in your initscripts directories.

If Apache is running, but .php files are delivered up as source code, make sure /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf contains the appropriate instructions (below) and restart the server if necessary. You should have these two lines:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Anon

I have the same problem. Everything is installed, everything is running, but the sever won't serve php and cgi also... It' weird...