IIS PHP MYSQL setup problems

SpLiFf · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

Hey guys, firstly, here's the background (before the problem)

OS - Win XP Pro
Web Server APP - IIS 5.1
PHP - 5.2.4
MYSQL - 5.0.45

IIS webserver credentials:
(ISAPI Filters) PHP=C:\PHP\php5isapi.dll
(Home Dir Config - mappings): .php,.php3,.php4,.phtml
C:\PHP\php5isapi.dll
(Documents) index.php

PHP setup and install reference
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-amp-mysql-1-installation/2

MYSQL reference
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-amp-mysql-1-installation/1

k, thats maybe too much info Smile

but i really need answers, ive been all over for too long...

THE PROBLEM
i have placed a file index.php in the root of my webserver in place of index.html, the index.php contains the following code (php reference) :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Today's Date</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Today's Date (according to this Web server) is
<?php

echo date('l, F dS Y.');

?></p>
</body>
</html>

i have spent the past 48hrs trying to set this up and now have this issue:

when the "localhost" webserver page loads, there is absolutely nothing on the page nor in the source, i am on the brink of peeling my face off... please help