<snip> > And here's where things go wrong. When I click on "Begin installation", > Firefox wants to "open" the file install.php by leaving me one of the > two following choices : > > a) edit "install.php" in GEdit > b) download "install.php" It sounds like you might not have your php set up correctly in apache or at least in this virtualhost. Somewhere in your configuration do you have lines that say: AddHandler php5-script .php AddType text/html .php This is most likely found in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf Barry