Rishi Did you try that out? This should not happen actually... all broswers
render that content only which the server sends to them... so be it chrome,
be it firefox, be it IE - any browser should open it...

Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
Master in Computer Applications

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On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Rishi Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Ankur,
> Thanks a lot. Actually the thing on that link didn't solved my problem.
> But I searched further for "php files getting downloaded" and noted that
> the most of the people were facing this problem on chrome. So I tried
> opening phpmyadmin on fire fox and it worked like a charm :)
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:49 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Rishi try this one:
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1109551
>>
>>
>>
>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>> Master in Computer Applications
>>
>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>             +91-9695436176
>>             +91-9162971729
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Rishi Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Also I thought it might be an security issue. So I configured password
>>> for mysql, phpmyadmin and xampp as well. But still not working.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Rishi Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> This phpinfo.php file thing is working. It is showing my php version as
>>>> 5.3.8 and I am also getting all the blocks. Although I did noticed one
>>>> thing, in my apache2handler block , Hostname:Port is specified as
>>>> localhost:0. Shouldn't it be port 80?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry Rishi I could not see the mail. See if the help given by Bala
>>>>> works...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>
>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Tushar Maroo <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> +1 Bala
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess php is not installed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Try creating a file like and save it as phpinfo.php inside your
>>>>>>> document root and try accessing it from your browser.  You should see
>>>>>>> details about PHP if not then PHP is not installed properly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <?
>>>>>>> phpinfo();
>>>>>>> ?>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rishi Agarwal <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Ankur,
>>>>>>>> I removed all the mysql, apache, phpmyadmin, php packages; did a
>>>>>>>> apt-get autoremove and then installed xampp following these steps (
>>>>>>>> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#377). Still when
>>>>>>>> I accessed the localhost (http://localhost/xampp/index.php) and
>>>>>>>> click on phpmyadmin tab in the left, a file got downloaded and when I
>>>>>>>> accessed (http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php), index.php got
>>>>>>>> downloaded. I have worked extensively on xampp in windows before but 
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>> never experienced a problem of this type. What may be the cause of 
>>>>>>>> this? I
>>>>>>>> have also performed apt-get update to make sure     I have all the 
>>>>>>>> packages.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:36 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For better results, it is advisable to free your hard disk space
>>>>>>>>> and thus remove those packages which are redundant. XAMPP for linux 
>>>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>>>> contains those packages which will be installed by default.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Googling it will help you better as I have little ( negligible )
>>>>>>>>> experience on lamp but IMHO, you should remove those packages
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And yes, mention not :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Rishi Agarwal <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply. I just created a Hello World index.html
>>>>>>>>>> and deployed in /var/www. It's working properly when I access 
>>>>>>>>>> localhost. If
>>>>>>>>>> i download xampp for linux, then should I remove already installed 
>>>>>>>>>> packages
>>>>>>>>>> of phpmyadmin, mysql so that there is no conflict?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:18 PM, ankur kumar 
>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> When a page gets downloaded from the browser instead of getting
>>>>>>>>>>> rendered, it means that the setup has proceeded but that the server 
>>>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>> unable to 'understand' the type of the file.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You can try uploading some html file(s) to the server and check
>>>>>>>>>>> whether they are being rendered properly. In case they are, there 
>>>>>>>>>>> is some
>>>>>>>>>>> issue with the server configuration, else the installation has some
>>>>>>>>>>> problems.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I have not worked on lamp.. I guess using XAMPP for linux is an
>>>>>>>>>>> easier way out to the problem - it has PHP, MySQL, Apache bundled 
>>>>>>>>>>> together.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Rishi <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>> I tried to configure lamp on ubuntu 12.04 following this guide (
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-12.04-lts-lamp).
>>>>>>>>>>>> But when I point to localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php in the browser, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> it just
>>>>>>>>>>>> download the index.php file to my downloads folder. As mentioned 
>>>>>>>>>>>> in the
>>>>>>>>>>>> guide, I made a info.php file and its working properly. How can I 
>>>>>>>>>>>> fix this
>>>>>>>>>>>> error? I am attaching /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
>>>>>>>>>>>> and /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf for reference.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Rishi
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