I'm running Fedora, with the latest version of Apache, installed PHP and when I go to view a PHP file locally it just reads the file and display the contents on the screen. I'm pretty sure that the PHP module is loaded correctly into Apache.

Have you also added the correct extension in the httpd.conf file?

I added it to/etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

The files contents are:

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
#
# Cause the PHP interpreter handle files with a .php extension.
#
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
LimitRequestBody 524288
</Files>

#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php

You should also have something like this in the file:

I should put it in the php.conf file or httpd.conf?

I tried it in both "php.conf" and "httpd.conf" and neither worked. The permissions the .php file is 777. I've run out of ideas.

You can usually add it to either and it will work fine.

Tried both man. Cant figure it out.

Do you get any errors on the output of:

apachectl configtest

It said the syntax is ok. Any more ideas?

Does it print a blank page or the code still?

If its the code, I would assume php was not compiled with apache properly. Did you install php afterwards or before apache?

When I opened the file in the web browser it showed the code instead of executing it. I installed PHP after I installed my browser.

I got it man........ I'm kind of embarrased to say it, but the reason why I was just reading the file instead of executing it is because the webserver had absolutally nothing to do with the file when I was going File/Open. What I did was I copied the directory to /var/www/html and read it like http://127.0.0.1/index.php....

Glad it was something simple... it happens to me all the time, the small and overlooked obvious solutions..

It said could not find libphp4.so
(What can I do now? I installed Php successfully)