Topic: installing php on apache ends in "index of/"

[toetbrech]

hi, i've win xp (home) and i've installed php 5.31 manually on apache 2.2.14. php is indicated on the baseline of apache monitor, but when i try to open the simple test.php <? php phpinfo(); ?> by my web browser with
127.0.0.1 only
Index of /
test.php
is shown. Surely, this has quite simple reasons, but i cannot find them.
thx for any help

[glsmith]

is there an index.html file in there too?

[toetbrech]

thx, glsmith. no, it isn't.

[James Blond]

Which url do you type into your browser? Just http://127.0.0.1 or http://127.0.0.1/test.php ?

[glsmith]

Then that is expected behavior. If there is no file specified by the DirectoryIndex directive in the directory, you will get the index. There's a caveat here in that Options must also be set to "All" or "Indexes" for said directory, and in your case it must be one of them or your would have gotten a 403 error.

See:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options

[toetbrech]

James:in both cases it doesn't work
glsmith:i'd options Indexes FollowSymLinks before
and i've changed it to options All but that brought no effect.
i almost believe that php is not installed correctly but
in Apache Service Monitor one can read apache/ 2.2.14(win32)php/5.3.1...
many thx for your answers

[James Blond]

[toetbrech]

james: there's a popup window saying:test.php-do you want to download this file? ......
i've added
LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpdphp .php
PHPIniDir "c:/php"
to httpd.conf and changed the path into "c:/public_html" in DocumentRoot
and <Directory>. In the folder C:\php i renamed php.ini-production to php.ini and also changed doc_root into "c:\public_html" in this folder.

[Millennium]

While using AddType should work (if you correctly insert the type) is using AddHandler the correct way.

[toetbrech]

Millenium: Thank you very much. Your advice resolved the issue.
Thx to all, once more.