i am very stuck with making a PHP forum work..

[me-so-sleepy]

oke i was told i needed to install the following

PHP
MySQL
Apache

i installed all of them and still the message forum appears as code.. //URL removed//

what am i doing wrong? what do i need to do to fix this?

[Saj]

Did you add lines in the Apache's httpd.conf file?

[firepages]

me-so , I removed the url to your pages as they reveal information you dont want everyone to see ;)

as for installing PHP,MySQL Apache etc , you mean your host did ? are you hosting from home ? , need more info , but please for your own sake protect those directories from prying eyes until you have PHP up and running.