Very First step with PHP

[Lodovikus]

I want to learn PHP on my own machine, I downloaded the windows version to replace IIS and just test the

<?PHP
phpinfo();
?>

and to my own surprise it is working,.... oohhh what a wonderful feeling.

My question is why my default.php or index.php page doesn't appear by default on the browser at http://localhost but it is OK if type http://localhost/default.php

thank you for your help

[bokeh]

If you "replaced" IIS what are you using as a server?

On Apache there is a line in httpd.conf to specify what the default file is named.

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.html.var index.htm

[Lodovikus]

Now I know Replace is wrong word, I think I meant PHP for windows and I have IIS on my machine something like that....or is it?
any way, thank you Bokeh. is there something similar to directoryIndex in IIS

[bokeh]

I don't know but I suggest you use Apache as your webserver.

[Lodovikus]

I will have look at the apache server'
Thanks again for your time