Further to my last post (in which I wanted help with Apache not running php files), when I open c:\xampp\htaccess\index.php in Mozilla Firefox, I get as output not the code, as I get in IE, but rather the message "Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation". This is interesting because the text of the index.php file is:
<?php
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && ('on' == $_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
$uri = 'https://';
} else {
$uri = 'http://';
}
$uri .= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
header('Location: '.$uri.'/dashboard/');
exit;
?>
Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation
So apache is here running the program, but the php part isn't working.