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I don't know what to do. I read the related question on stackoverflow just like mine but those changes didn't work. I asked again on stackoverflow and they sent me here. They sent that I need to load my PHP module, but I've done that (at least to my knowledge). Here is what I posed to them:

First, I edited the httpd.conf file and uncommented LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so .

Next after getting this error "/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument" I changed ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="ulimit -S -n ulimit -H -n to ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="" or some odd thing. That resolved that error.

However I still just see my source code in Safari (actually Chrome decided to download the PHP file instead--different problem/story). Then I found a question similar to mine on stackoverflow and added some AddHandler lines to the php5.conf file which mimicked the AddType lines in the file after AddHandler. Still didn't work even after a "sudo apachectl restart".

Then I finally added AddType x-httpd-php .php to the httpd.conf file because that was also mentioned in the previous question on stackoverflow. I did it just for good measure. Nada.

I'm baffled. I'm just trying to get started so I can learn to program and I feel like I've spent a lifetime just trying to print 'Hello World' in my browser.

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Please give us your configuration (formatted as a code block so it comes out readable) so we can see what's gone wrong. The symptoms tell us that apache doesn't think that whatever.php needs to be passed to mod_php for processing, but the changes you made should fix it. Other things to check: is the file you're editing the same file apache is using? – DerfK Feb 15 '11 at 22:44
What exact URL are you trying to go to when you see your source code? – Matt Gibson Feb 15 '11 at 22:48
Oh Jesus... no wonder. All this time I was just opening it as a file. I should have gotten more sleep last night. Thanks. – Storm Holloway Feb 15 '11 at 23:39
I know it sounds kind of obvious but did you remember to reload the config or restart Apache? – John Gardeniers Feb 16 '11 at 0:33
@Storm Sometimes, it's the obvious things that trip you up :) – Matt Gibson Feb 16 '11 at 0:35
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If you're looking to program, and want something that 'just works', you may consider just doing a MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack) install and moving on. I've used it a few times under Leopard and it did the trick.

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Oh I see.. I thought MAMP was just a general name for this combination of platforms, which I thought I was using. I didn't realize this was a download. – Storm Holloway Feb 15 '11 at 22:39
@Storm: It is a general name for that combination, but there are packaged solutions that put everything together preconfigured. This one happens to be named MAMP – DerfK Feb 15 '11 at 22:44
Here's my problem now: I have MAMP up and running, phpversion works through their link. MAMP tells me things are working, yet a simple Hello World .php file just shows me the code in the browser. How can this be a server issue still? I'm baffled. – Storm Holloway Feb 15 '11 at 23:35
Well at least some other poor morons will have this as a resource. – Storm Holloway Feb 15 '11 at 23:40
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