PHP not working

PatUbu · 08-01-2008, 07:54 PM

(running apache 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3, ubuntu 8.04, firefox 3.01)
I installed apache, go to localhost and see my test page fine. Then I add a single line of php and it does not display (after Ctrl-r).

Any help is appreciated.
thx
Pat

Here is the html file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Hello</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>It almost WORKS! file is at /var/www/index.html</h1>
<?php print "This text does not print"; ?>

more text (this prints fine)

</body></html>

AdaHacker · 08-01-2008, 08:05 PM

Sounds to me like PHP either isn't installed or isn't enabled. Make sure you have the php5 package installed and that the php5.load file is properly linked to in your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled directory.

PatUbu · 08-01-2008, 08:18 PM

Doing more debugging, if I link to a file phpinfo.php that contains only the line <?php phpinfo(); ?>

this works and I get a nice (long) page of info. But my php code on html pages does not display anything.

Any ideas?
thx
Pat

AdaHacker · 08-01-2008, 08:33 PM

What's the file extension on that file? If it's .html, then in the default configuration, Apache won't pass it to PHP at all. Use a .php extension instead. Or you can modify your Apache configuration to treat all .html files as PHP.

PatUbu · 08-01-2008, 08:38 PM

I was putting the php code in a file named index.html and the html worked fine but php was ignored. I renamed the file to index.php and it works great! I guess any file with php needs to have the .php extension.

thx
Pat