Asking me to save install.php

Same here (IE 7). You indeed shouldn’t get that message. No idea what causes the browser to think it’s a download.

It′s not the browser. I getting this problem in IE 6 and Firefox, on both Linux and Windows XP. I′ve checked permissions and users on the server. Other php apps work fine.

I think it may about the version of mysql your host supports

mysql is mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.11, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)
and mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.38, for pc-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2
respectively. This is within requirements.
The only way this can occur is if Apache doesn′t send it to the php handler: mod_PHP, or if mod_PHP doesn′t or cant process it as script.
php versions are 5.0.4 and 5.2.1 respectively. Apache is 2.0

thank you good info.. is there a work around for this?

Since i have an older version of mysql from host 3.2.2 i have roll back to version 2.0 and it seems to be working.

Thank you

I am facing this problem, did anybody solve it? my browser thinks the install.php is a download.

I have the same problem. PHP 4.4.8 Nobody know an solution?

This may help:

https://graemehunter.co.uk/2007/08/firefox-tries-to-save-installphp-to-disk-when-installing-wordpress-2/