Sometimes, we want to fix Apache showing PHP code instead of executing it.
In this article, we’ll look at how to fix Apache showing PHP code instead of executing it.
How to fix Apache showing PHP code instead of executing it?
To fix Apache showing PHP code instead of executing it, we need to install the PHP interpreter packages.
To install them, we run
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php
sudo a2enmod mpm_prefork && sudo a2enmod php7.0
sudo service apache2 restart
on Ubuntu.
We install the packages with
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php
Then we enable PHP on Apache with
sudo a2enmod mpm_prefork && sudo a2enmod php7.0
Then we restart Apache with
sudo service apache2 restart
Conclusion
To fix Apache showing PHP code instead of executing it, we need to install the PHP interpreter packages.
