Yup, I did tried that out. In fact I saw the similar solution in stack
overflow but that didn't worked too. This is the thread on chrome forum
about this problem (
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/_cA0qdJ4LHI ).

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rishi Did you try that out? This should not happen actually... all
> broswers render that content only which the server sends to them... so be
> it chrome, be it firefox, be it IE - any browser should open it...
>
> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
> Master in Computer Applications
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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Rishi Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ankur,
>> Thanks a lot. Actually the thing on that link didn't solved my problem.
>> But I searched further for "php files getting downloaded" and noted that
>> the most of the people were facing this problem on chrome. So I tried
>> opening phpmyadmin on fire fox and it worked like a charm :)
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:49 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Rishi try this one:
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1109551
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>
>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Rishi Agarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also I thought it might be an security issue. So I configured password
>>>> for mysql, phpmyadmin and xampp as well. But still not working.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Rishi Agarwal 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> This phpinfo.php file thing is working. It is showing my php version
>>>>> as 5.3.8 and I am also getting all the blocks. Although I did noticed one
>>>>> thing, in my apache2handler block , Hostname:Port is specified as
>>>>> localhost:0. Shouldn't it be port 80?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry Rishi I could not see the mail. See if the help given by Bala
>>>>>> works...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Tushar Maroo 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +1 Bala
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess php is not installed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try creating a file like and save it as phpinfo.php inside your
>>>>>>>> document root and try accessing it from your browser.  You should see
>>>>>>>> details about PHP if not then PHP is not installed properly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <?
>>>>>>>> phpinfo();
>>>>>>>> ?>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rishi Agarwal <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Ankur,
>>>>>>>>> I removed all the mysql, apache, phpmyadmin, php packages; did a
>>>>>>>>> apt-get autoremove and then installed xampp following these steps (
>>>>>>>>> http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#377). Still when
>>>>>>>>> I accessed the localhost (http://localhost/xampp/index.php) and
>>>>>>>>> click on phpmyadmin tab in the left, a file got downloaded and when I
>>>>>>>>> accessed (http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php), index.php got
>>>>>>>>> downloaded. I have worked extensively on xampp in windows before but 
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> never experienced a problem of this type. What may be the cause of 
>>>>>>>>> this? I
>>>>>>>>> have also performed apt-get update to make sure     I have all the 
>>>>>>>>> packages.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:36 PM, ankur kumar 
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> For better results, it is advisable to free your hard disk space
>>>>>>>>>> and thus remove those packages which are redundant. XAMPP for linux 
>>>>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>>>>> contains those packages which will be installed by default.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Googling it will help you better as I have little ( negligible )
>>>>>>>>>> experience on lamp but IMHO, you should remove those packages
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And yes, mention not :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Rishi Agarwal <
>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply. I just created a Hello World index.html
>>>>>>>>>>> and deployed in /var/www. It's working properly when I access 
>>>>>>>>>>> localhost. If
>>>>>>>>>>> i download xampp for linux, then should I remove already installed 
>>>>>>>>>>> packages
>>>>>>>>>>> of phpmyadmin, mysql so that there is no conflict?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:18 PM, ankur kumar <[email protected]
>>>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> When a page gets downloaded from the browser instead of getting
>>>>>>>>>>>> rendered, it means that the setup has proceeded but that the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> server is
>>>>>>>>>>>> unable to 'understand' the type of the file.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You can try uploading some html file(s) to the server and check
>>>>>>>>>>>> whether they are being rendered properly. In case they are, there 
>>>>>>>>>>>> is some
>>>>>>>>>>>> issue with the server configuration, else the installation has some
>>>>>>>>>>>> problems.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I have not worked on lamp.. I guess using XAMPP for linux is an
>>>>>>>>>>>> easier way out to the problem - it has PHP, MySQL, Apache bundled 
>>>>>>>>>>>> together.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ankur Kumar <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Master in Computer Applications
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Mobile: +91-9968023094
>>>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9695436176
>>>>>>>>>>>>             +91-9162971729
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Rishi 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I tried to configure lamp on ubuntu 12.04 following this guide
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-12.04-lts-lamp).
>>>>>>>>>>>>> But when I point to localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php in the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> browser, it just
>>>>>>>>>>>>> download the index.php file to my downloads folder. As mentioned 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> guide, I made a info.php file and its working properly. How can I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> fix this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> error? I am attaching /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf for reference.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rishi
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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