After having installed WAMP, php files download when accessed through the browser instead of being run

Question

After having installed WAMP, I successfully accessed http://localhost/index.php which is the WAMP index page. So Apache is working properly.

I then copied my code into C:/wamp/www/mycode/ and tried to access it through http://localhost/mycode/somepage.php. Instead of running the script it downloads it at this point.

Moving the files to C:/wamp/www/somepage.php works perfectly fine though, so for some reason it won't allow me to have files in a subdirectory of the root folder.

My httpd.conf file includes the following types and handlers:

AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .phtml

I have browsed through a large number of related problems but none have been able to solve my problem. The problem must be that for some reason I cannot run my php files in a subdirectory of the root folder. Also, I have tried running html files in said subdirectory and they work fine.

Answer 1

I had this problem and if you actually never played with your server configuration settings, then your problem is 90% in your .htaccess file

Check your http://localhost/mycode/.htaccess file or try running your site without it.