Dear all I am new to php, I have already running tomcat web server on port 80, following are the details of tomcat PHP: CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/www/html/TOMCAT_DEMO/tomcat CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/www/html/TOMCAT_DEMO/tomcat CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/www/html/TOMCAT_DEMO/tomcat/temp JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.7.0_11 CLASSPATH: /usr/local/www/html/TOMCAT_DEMO/tomcat port detail PHP: --> <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443" /> <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool--> <!-- <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" /> --> I had tried to install php and apache2 using following link, but could not succeed, whenever I tried to run info.php in /var/www/ it was getting downloaded instead of displaying php information , and my existing server running on tomcat stopped working http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-debian-lenny-lamp please someone guide me to start php