You need to tell apache that index.php is a page to load as a 'DirectoryIndex'. In your httpd.conf file (mine is in /etc/httpd/conf on RHL 7.1) append index.php to the line that loooks like this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml {.... maybe more things} so it should now read: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php (BTW, you can define other filenames to be handled in this way.) On Monday, January 28, 2002 5:15 AM, David Lee Ludwig <davidl@WPI.EDU> wrote:

I'm currently trying to set up Apache and PHP4 under Debian woody. So far, I have Apache and php4 up and running (using apt-get retrieved binaries.) I can load php pages w/o problems, provided I specify the file directly. That is, the following URL will work:

http://my.domain/some_dir/index.php

but loading the following:

http://my.domain/some_dir/

will result in Mozilla (0.9.5) giving me a download dialog box telling me: "You have chosen to download a file of type: application/x-httpd-php", which is followed by a choice to either pick a helper app or to save to disk.

Any thoughts on how I would go about fixing this?

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