First off, I'm still a Linux n00b...while I've got the basics of Linux down, venturing beyond basic confs and apt-get is still beyond me, and I seem to have found myself in that "beyond me" area.

My ultimate goal is to get Gallery2 running, so that I can gracefully do photos on my webserver. I have Apache2, mysql-server, php5, and Gallery2 installed (whatever apt-get grabs). This is on a Debian etch system (installed about a week ago) Apache2 _appears_ to work correctly, and my page is visible at www.urbexgrp.com from the outside. I was able to successfully create a gallery2 database using mysqladmin. But regardless of what I do, I can't get .php files to execute in a browser (always just shows the source code). I've spent the past week attempting to get php and apache to play nicely together, and well, I'm lost. I've spent so many nights awake, and tried so many things, I've lost track of what I did.