php files not recognized in browser

[Alex Maynard]

Hi, I've got a newby question on a php set up problem.  This is probably a
trivial question, but I'm stuck on it and would be grateful for any help I
can find.

I set up apache/php/other application on linux using
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/.

Everything including their test step worked fine.

But, when I tried to open a php file on my computer using mozilla I got
the following error message:

The file "hello.php" is of type application/x-httpd-php, and Mozilla does
not know how to handle this file type. The file is located at:
/home/amaynard/share/private_html/php  What should Mozilla do with this
file?

The strange thing is that Mozilla does recognize/open .php files on the internet (just not on
my computer). And opera seemed to be able to open the .php file
on my computer but I'm not sure it displayed correctly.

Following what I found on google I tried modifying the httpd config file:
/etc/apache/httpd.conf   and adding the line:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
and then restarging http using:
httpd:/opt/lampp/bin/httpd -k restart

But still no luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Alex



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