[SLE] PHP5 not running

SuSE 10.0 hosting apache2-2.0.54-10 and php5-5.0.4-9, both installed via YaST.

Pointing a Firefox browser at a page on the above server yields a dialog asking what firefox should do with this, open with... or save file to... (IE just loads about:blank!)

I've searched the archives and have checked all the usual features:

mime.type includes: application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php php3 php4 php5
httpd.conf includes: DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var

One thing which is common among several archives is that a re installation wipes away the problem. I've tried that both with php and apache to no avail. (It did work when I had this problem earlier on php4)

My first suspicion is that the SuSE 10 builds of Apache and php5 are not compatible but I am not sufficiently versed in Linux to be confident in messing with the YaST installed applications.

Clearly, if I try the test page <?php phpinfo(); ?>, that gives the same error and gets me nowhere.

How can I check, at the server, which is command-line based, that php5 is running and accepting scripts? Do I need to 'start' php5?

Have any of you experience of this problem and any suggestions on how to resolve this and get a web site up and running with php5?

TIA

John

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