attemping to set up a LAMP server

[eric©]

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.

Should I be not messing with apt-get with all this?  Should I be
installing/compiling from source code?

eric
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