PHP Issue

[DP3720]

I just set up a Kubuntu 15.04 box and installed the LAMP stack. However, php does not seem to be working. I tried to setup a joomla website, but it just displays the content of the index.php. I also tried creating a php.info file in the root folder. Even that only displays the content of the file in the browser.
Please help....

[whatthefunk]

If you just type 'localhost' in a browser url bar, what happens? How did you set up the server?

[DP3720]

Localhost successfully gives me the Apache page. Apache was installed with the following command
sudo apt-get install apache2

[whatthefunk]

How did you put the website on the server? Did you put a virtual host for the site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available?

[DP3720]

I installed Webmin and then Virtualmin. A website was created in virtualmin. But I tried putting a file to check php (info.php) in the root of the default site (/etc/var/www/home). That gives me the same result. It is almost as if php scripts are not running

[Feathers McGraw]

A couple of ideas, it depends how you set up Joomla...

Maybe you're being served content from the default virtualhost (/var/www/), and your Joomla site is somewhere else (e.g. /var/www/joomla)?

Or, if the Joomla site is installed in the root of /var/www/ then you'll have to remove the default apache index page, or it will be used in preference to the Joomla index page.

[whatthefunk]

What Feathers said. Im not familiar with Webmin or Virtualmin, but there should be a virtual host file for your site in /etc/apache2/sites-available. In that file, you can set the document root and directory. This is a virtual host file for one of my sites:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName sitename.dev
        ServerAlias www.sitename.dev
        DocumentRoot /home/whatthefunk/Web/Sitename/public
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        <Directory /home/whatthefunk/Web/Sitename/public>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        <Directory />
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

[DP3720]

I believe the document roots are defined correctly. Localhost pulls up the correct apache "It Works" page. The document root for this is /var/www/html. I created a file called phpinfo.php with the contents
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
When I open a browser and put in http://localhost/phpinfo.php, It just display the content of the phpinfo.php file in the browser.

[Feathers McGraw]

Maybe the apache php module isn't loaded. Try this:

sudo a2enmod php5

...which should enable the PHP module.

Then reload apache:

sudo service apache2 reload

Any change?

[DP3720]

I think PHP did not install properly. I re installed LAMP and all is well now. I would like to thank you guys for the help provided.