Windows 7.I've tried: Install, un-install... over and over. Changing the localhost to my IP in the file httpd. Running without a firewall.
In xampp, I check statues and it says php is running fine, but when I check the file located in the htdoc file "index.php" all I see is the code... meaning it's not working. It seem there are lots of forums to this problem, and though, they get it fixed, there's not to many answers. I hope that this thread will find a simple answer.
My walk through: Download xampp, install, runs apache and Mysql automatically, open index.php from htdoc, doesn't work. Go to browser, localhost/xampp/index, check statues, Mysql database, php, https(ssl), CGI, SSI, ACTIVATED... smtp, ftp, tomcat, DEACTIVATED.
Since most of the time the problem is the user, it must be me doing something wrong or not doing something right.