Newbie PHP Windows Vista Install problem.. Need Rogain. HELP

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DotNetTim
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Newbie PHP Windows Vista Install problem.. Need Rogain. HELP

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Hello..

I'm a new PHP user. I own a lap top that has plenty of power / ram, etc,. Windows Vista, with just DotNet Express tools installed. So, I download Netbeans for PHP and using Sun's web site try to install "xamplite" and PHP 5.? version from the tutorial at the Sun site. There are two tutorials which explain two different installs. One with xamplite and the other downloading PHP, and Apache web server, etc, individually, which I also tried. I was able to install Apache server and MySQL no problem, but when I install PHP (The latest .msi file) I am not able to get the test php script to work in the htdocs folder. Instead of the script writing out to the browser "it worked" with the PHP extension file, it tries to download the php file. It will work with htm / html files however which tells me the apache server is working. (I have been a classic asp programmer and dot net guy for a long time as well as IIS.). So, I'm assuming that the PHP Dll or whatever is used to interprut the PHP extension file isn't working. (It's not php.txt by the way, I know that one too.. hehe). So, I tried again this time un-installing everything and installing xamplite and now I'm getting a server error about a bunch of Windows.Dll files and OCX files or something such as that. So, what gives? Anyone tell me the easist way to get this thing to work? I've open the files and ran the install files as the admininstrator and yet no can do? HELP! I'm about to need Rogain! Thanks in advance..

Tim
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