I was was trying to use apache in combination with mysql and php, it's just that only apache works, and the php pages are seen as files. I have been searching for a while and also had some help of a friend, but we have not able to solve it yet. I put the full content of httpd.conf, php4.conf and php4.load. Has anyone ever had these troubles before, or knows how to solve them?

>/etc/apache2/httpd.conf<
# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php


>/etc/apahce2/mods-enabled/php4.conf<
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

>/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.load<
LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so

By "the php pages are seen as files" do you mean icons of the php files or the code is displayed?

At any rate, I can think of two possible things here.

1. The apache2.conf (or httpd.conf depending on the distro) has a line starting with "DirectoryIndex". Does this line include index.php?
(i.e. DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.xhtml)

2. The php.ini file (perhaps /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini) should contain the following:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Language Options ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under Apache.
engine = On