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I just installed MAMP 2.1.1 on OS X 10.7.4. The MAMP Start page says everything is running.

MySQL is running, I can issue command line commands in Terminal. I tested PHP by typing:

php -f testphp.php

where testphp.php contained one line of code:

<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>

In the terminal window, this returned the expected - an extensive listing of PHP config info. All appears to be well, but if I direct Safari to a simple PHP page, instead of seeing the page run, I get a listing of its source code!

I built a page whose body is:

<body>
Testing PHP:
<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
</body>

I called it testphp.php. If I go to :

localhost/testphp.php

I see the source code listing! If I rename the file to testphp.html, I see:

Testing PHP:

but that's all - the line of PHP code produces nothing.

Can anyone explain why my localhost server won't talk PHP?

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First:
Are you really going through the server?
Try

`http://localhost/testphp.php`

Second:
Is the server set up for php? Is the server set up to read from wherever you have your source file?

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