BLANK SCREEN EASY FIX (edited)

I am new to XP(NT4) and to php. And just like a lot of beginners, I was getting a blank screen when I loaded up my test page. The page should have produced "Hi, I'm a PHP script! " I double checked and modified my web server's settings using the Manual Installation Steps several times. But made no progress. I later discovered that my problem was caused by using the WRONG FILE EXTENSION. My test file name should have ended with *.PHP instead of *.HTML. DUH!! I hope this helps any other newbies or those trying to help the newbies. Thank You Salomon newbie - 2nd class