note 44100 deleted from faq.installation by nlopess

Note Submitter: hsp@hopingitsnotspammed.anywherebb.com ---- Foreword: I'm using Apache 1.3.31 over WinXP Home. I've been attempting to install php 5 as a module. I've succeeded, it seems, but I had the following problem. Because it seems to work now, I'm pointing it out here, HTH. Sympthom: no PHP parsing at all. Firefox returning a "what do you want to do with the-php-file...", prompting for saving or opening with my text editor. No PHP parsing, that's it. Apache config: triple-checked the indications, but to no avail. Apparent solution: LoadModule php5_module c:/php/php5apache.dll AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe" The fact is: the last "action" line isn't supposed to be used (as from install.txt) for when installing PHP as a module. It's listed under the notes concerning the CGI installation, but... it simply didn't work until I put that line there. Now the question is: have I done it right? is it now running as a CGI or as a module? was that indication missing with PHP5 in install.txt? That's all...