PHP pages won't open correctly on my server.

PHP pages won't open at all on my server. HTML pages open fine, but when going to the PHP pages that are on my server, the browser tries to download the page like a file instead of presenting it by the browser. What can I do to make the PHP processor to be handled properly? Do I need to recompile it again, and if so, what switches should I use? I am running Apache version 2.2.11. I'm on Fedora 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on that particular server. I'm running PHP 5.2.9 which I downloaded directly from the php web site, then untarred, ran make, and make install commands as described in the php INSTALL file that was included with the distribution.. ================== Example 2-4. Installation Instructions (Apache 2 Shared Module Version) 1. gzip -d httpd-2_0_NN.tar.gz 2. tar xvf httpd-2_0_NN.tar 3. gunzip php-NN.tar.gz 4. tar -xvf php-NN.tar 5. cd httpd-2_0_NN 6. ./configure --enable-so 7. make 8. make install ================== You will probably try to talk me into using yum, I would like to but it is broken and fixing it leads to even more troblemshooting. I want to fix this first, then I will tackle the yum issue next.