I have a problem I can not explain as I am a noob....
I installed, win amp, and a host of other all in one progs but they kept throwing up errors, so I made a decision to install mysql, phpmyadmin, apache, php5 and co join them to work together.
After 2 weeks of screwing things up I decided today to make it happen.
Now the problem I have is when I install a script like joomla it works perfectly but when I link back to a php file, lets say my index php

I get a directory structure.. if I click on the php file it works but its the directory structure thats throwing me..... It should as you well know direct to the php file and show the script, but all it does is show the directory structure and I have to click on the php file to make it work...

As a numbskull I was wondering if anybody could help me here...

Why is it directing to the directory structure instead of opening the php file????


Your advice would be most welcome..
John

index.php is not set in you apache config httpd.conf file there's a section which normally looks like this

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm

, as you can see my httpd.conf use index.php (if present), when a directory is requested.