PHP files not parsing in Ubuntu

[DeathShot]

I've had this problem on Windows so I came back to Ubuntu in hopes that a fresh system will install PHP right. I installed Apache2 and PHP from the command line, you know the whole Sudo Apt-get install business and was silly enough to think that it would work out of the box. Naturally, as things are with the world... it did not.

So I have googled my problems and tried most of the things they had suggested, to no avail. It could just be that I am doing things wrong, I am a windows user and a bit rusty on my commend line.

Apache works so long as I don't try and display a PHP file.

I am running 11.10 Desktop edition, NOT server edition because this isn't for a sever this is for recreational coding and web design.

[lisati]

What exactly is happening? Is the PHP being displayed as PHP code in your browser? Is your browser trying to download a file?

[DeathShot]

What exactly is happening? Is the PHP being displayed as PHP code in your browser? Is your browser trying to download a file?

I should have mentioned this, duh. Forgive me it's late. In Ubuntu it asks you to download the file, in Windows it shows me the code.

[lisati]

Have a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...shooting_PHP_5

[athampan]

Could you list all the apt-get install commands that you used? Did you also do this:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

[DeathShot]

Could you list all the apt-get install commands that you used? Did you also do this:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

sudo apt-get install apache2 
sudo apt-get install php5 
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Have a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...shooting_PHP_5

I will go over your link and see if it helps, though I think I might have already stumbled upon it at some point.

[DeathShot]

I went to that link and ran "sudo a2enmod php5" and the results are interesting?

ERROR: Module php5 not properly enabled: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load is a real file, not touching it

I'm not sure what that means, php5.load is supposed to be in mods enabled, isn't it?

[DeathShot]

I completely purged everything, PHP5, Apache2, and anything even remotely related to it and installed it from scratch again. I am still getting the exact same errors. Any ideas?

[dragonfly41]

clear browser cache

do you have short tags on or off in php.ini ?

try terminal command locate php.ini to find location of php.ini

try a simple test.php

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

[DeathShot]

Well I located the multiple locations of index.php
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
/etc/php5/apache2filter/php.ini
/etc/php5/cli/php.ini
/usr/share/doc/php5-common/examples/php.ini-development
/usr/share/php5/php.ini-production
/usr/share/php5/php.ini-production-dist
/usr/share/php5/php.ini-production.cl



It should just be the default, which if I know my php (which I better) php 5 uses <?php ?> at least that is how I have always done it. Though it doesn't matter because it asks me to download the file anyways simply because of the php extension. The test file doesn't work because it asks me to download it.