LAMP issue

[jeger003]

hello,
i installed ubuntu and lamp on a virtualbox. put all my files in var/www and when i got to index.php it only reads html or at least thats what it looks like. my website wont run properly for some reason. php5 is installed i can echo "anything" but it seems like it wont read it. what am i doing wrong?

[Lars Noodén]

Welcome.

About your PHP issue, check to be sure that you have installed the package PHP5. It will give you basic PHP support.

sudo apt-get install php5

Then check to ensure that you have enabled Apache's mod_php.

sudo a2enmod php5

Then you can try putting some test code in index.php.

<?php
phpinfo( );
?>

Does that code produce output for you?

[jeger003]

it tells me that they are all installed and working. phpinfo() also works but my pages are not displaying. i did a complete transfer so its fully functional from wamp

[CharlesA]

Check the apache error log in /var/log/apache2/

[sandyd]

moved to server platforms

[Lars Noodén]

Check the apache error log in /var/log/apache2/

One easy way to do that is to open up a terminal and then use tail to track the end of the error log.

tail -f  /var/log/apache2/error.log

That way you can have the web browser and error log side by side.

[CharlesA]

+1 Lars.

[jeger003]

now we're getting somewhere. I got error opening include file in php. but it opens properly in wamp. do i need to change permissions in lamp for files and folders?

[j2bv16]

You can install xampp http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

[CharlesA]

now we're getting somewhere. I got error opening include file in php. but it opens properly in wamp. do i need to change permissions in lamp for files and folders?

Check the permissions before messing with anything else.

Can you post the exact error message from the log?