Apache & PHP Installation. 500 error

[Jeanco]

Hello,

I've gone through the step-by-step guide on how to install PHP on my personal computer. The one I used can be found here:

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/44/index4a_page7.html?tw=programming

Everything seems to go according to plan until I hit the step that asks me to test everything by running phpinfo.php (which is stored in the htdocs folder and contains <? phpinfo() ?> as its only content.

When I go to run this file I get a 500 Internal Server error. I've double checked everything in the tutorial and can't put my finger on where I must've gone wrong.

Can anyone here help? If you need more information let me know, I'll be happy to provide it. I'm really stuck.

Thanks in advance.

 

[CreativeLogic]

Did you try calling a page without any php on it? Does that work correctly?

 

[csmaster2005]

Did you try calling a page without any php on it? Does that work correctly?

yea, you gota make sure apache is installed properly first, I think that's your problem

 

[Michau]

Do you have any .htaccess files? They will give 500 Internal Server Error if you make errors in them, or call directives from modules that have not been loaded.

 

[Jeanco]

Thanks guys,

Someome recommended PHp Home Edition 2 from sourceforge and it installed Apache, PHP and phpMyAdmin all in one easy step, so thats what I did.

Thanks though.