Won't open files in local directory

[userFour]

I had looked at some different topics, but I am overwhelmed with them and I cannot understand a lot of what posters are asking. This is the first day I have ever typed something in php, so I am new. Here is my problem illustrated with pictures.
Going to http://localhost works.



in htdocs I put a hw.php file with the following code.



Going to http://localhost/hw.php does not work.



What am I dong wrong?

[Jan445]

i dont have a solution but maybe this helps you,
why dont you copy
<?php
echo"hello world";
?>
in to the file index.php that now displays "It works!" just use that file and try to figure out what the problem is
i think it must be something easy.

[userFour]

It is fixed, thanks. XAMPP was not doing the apache, another thing was.