Why is php not running

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I ve seen this question answered many times  but most end either unanswered or by telling the asker to put this    lt  php phpinfo     gt    in a test file  Obviously  if that produced what was expected  I wouldn t be here  Instead  I get a 404 error   I m using an ubuntu 12 04 server with Amazon  Apache is installed  php5 is installed  and apache was restarted  I followed the following sequence   sudo apt-get install apache2  sudo apt-get install php5  sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5  sudo  etc init d apache2 restart   Each one of the first three commands now gives me  apache2 is already the newest version  0 upgraded  0 newly installed  0 to remove and 3 not upgraded  Obviously  replace apache2 with php5 and libapache2-mod-php5 for the other two   This is a sure way to tell me it s installed  correct  Well  when I use the command  top   php is not one of the services that are running  which tells me it s not running  correct   Navigating to the IP address gives me Amazon s  It Works   page  but navigating to any other page on the server produces a 404 error   Any help is much appreciated

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Check out the apache config files  For Debian Ubuntu theyre in  etc apache2 sites-available  for RedHat CentOS etc they re in  etc httpd conf d   If you ve just installed it  the file in there is probably named default   Make sure that the config file in there is pointing to the correct folder and then make sure your scripts are located there   The line you re looking for in those files is DocumentRoot  path to directory   For a blank install  your php files most likely needs to be in  var www    What you ll also need to do is find your php ini file  probably located at  etc php5 apache2 php ini or  etc php ini and find the entry for display errors and switch it to On

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You need to add the semicolon to the end of all php things like echo  functions  etc   change  lt  php phpinfo     gt  to  lt  php phpinfo      gt   If that does not work  use php s function ini set to show errors  ini set  display errors   1

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When installing  Apache and PHP under Ubuntu 14 04   I needed to specifically enable php configs by issuing a2enmod php5-cgi

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One big gotcha is that PHP is disabled in user home directories by default  so if you are testing from   public html it doesn t work  Check   etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf    Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default      To re-enable PHP in user directories comment the following lines    from  lt IfModule     gt  to  lt  IfModule gt    Do NOT set it to On as it   prevents  htaccess files from disabling it    lt IfModule mod userdir c gt        lt Directory  home   public html gt           php admin flag engine Off       lt  Directory gt    lt  IfModule gt    Other than that installing in Ubuntu is real easy  as all the stuff you used to have to put in httpd conf is done automatically

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Type in browser localhost 80  test5 php where 80 is your port and test php is your file name  instead of c   xampp htdocs test php

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To answer the original question  Why is php not running   The file your browser is asking for must have the  php extension  If the file has the  html extension  php will not be executed

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