This was a new one for me. I was installing Magento today on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.3 LTS to be exact) and ran into a problem where accessing the base Magento install URL would prompt to download the index.php file. The odd thing was that I could access the index.php directly and it would work just [...]

If you’re working with Magento Commerce you’ll most likely want to remove index.php from the URL when you go live. Or maybe you don’t care so feel free to stop reading.
This post addresses all the things you can do to remove index.php, but let me touch on the items that worked for me:
- From Magento’s [...]