[Alien56]

Recently I installed Apache 2.0.58 and PHP 5.1.4 and I edited the Apache config file include these lines:

LoadModule php5_module c:\php5\php5apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-pph .phtml .html

The file where you test php with the <? phpinfo(); ?> command works and it tells me all the php information but when I try to use php files from examples in a book a bought I just get blank pages, why is that?

[brendandonhu]

That should be
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml .html

Then PHP will process pages ending in .phtml and .html. What's the extension on the pages that aren't working?

[Alien56]

Sorry typed that line wrong what I really had was

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html

And the pages that arent working are the .php ones.

Also when I type http://localhost shouldn't the files show up there and not the apache page, because I have to type http://localhsot/filename.htm to get the page I'm looking for.

[brendandonhu]

It still needs to be
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html

Set Options +Indexes in httpd.conf (take out any Options -Indexes settings) to turn on directory listings.

[Alien56]

Can you tell me about where in the httpd.conf file the option indexs are located and an example of one line.

[Sequal7]

Do you want file indexing on? (meaning that if there is no index.php index.asp, index.htm, index.html etc.. page in the directory it will show a folder list of the contained files? (kinda like windows explorer)To turn on directory browsing, go to this line (yours may be different depending on your Apache install and OS)

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>

And ADD the word "Indexes" to the Options, like this:

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>
Save the document and restart the Apache server. Then when you type http://localhost you will see the contents of the folder if there is no html document.

Or, do you mean that you want your site page to show by tying http://localhost
If so, look for the commented line
# DirectoryIndex:
below that you will see;
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html
</IfModule>
type your file names into that, example is;
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.cgi index.pl index.html index.htm index.shtml index.phtml home.php home.htm home.html home.php4 home.php3
</IfModule>
Again save and restart Apache server, Then if you have a page called index.php (or any you just added) in your site root folder, and you type http://localhost your page will show, instead of the contents of the folder..