Okay, after some more fiddling, I have more details about the problem.

Browsing the main page works just fine.

When I click on the "create account/login" link In Firefox, I am prompted to download "index.php". I do so, and it is completely and 100% blank.

Doing the same in IE, I get a "this page cannot be displayed error"

But I can't find any errors in my apache logs. I turned on debugging in the wiki (ala $wgDebugLogFile = "/tmp/wikilog" ;), and the log looks clean:

Start request GET /index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page Host: wiki.myhosthere.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/200511 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9 ,text/plai Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: http://wiki.myhosthere.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Main cache: fakememcachedclient Message cache: mediawikibagostuff Parser cache: mediawikibagostuff

As I mentioned before, I have php+mysql working for other apps just fine -- any idea what's going on here?

On 11/28/05, Belorion belorion@gmail.com wrote:

I've gone through and installed MediaWiki 1.5.2. I did not enounter any problems during the install process -- it seemed to all go smoothly. However, when I click on "create an account" instead of sending me to a page it asks me if I want to download the PHP file ( index.php). If I click on "edit" on the main page, I get the edit box, but when I hit save I get the same "do you want to download this php" prompt (index.php).

I have PHP working on many things on this server, including phpBB2 and WordPress. What am I missing here that the server wants me to download the .php files instead of processing them? Any suggestions? Thanks.

Matt