Is PHP properly installed

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I Installed LAMP on Ubuntu according to instructions in this page Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials ,
but now if I create any page in php under /var/www, and use address http://localhost...etc
all I get to see is a blank page,even if the page contains only a simple echo statement.
I can view html files, but not php files linked from those html files, so I guess apache must be properly working.

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Did you look in your apache2 and PHP error log files?

4

why don't you try to re install with any server..

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Make sure that php is installed properly use php -v on your termianl,like this

akshay@Aix:~/Desktop$ php -v
PHP 5.5.9 (cli) (built: Feb 23 2014 03:00:50) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

akshay@Aix:~/Deskto$ php -r 'echo phpinfo();' | head -5
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.5.9

System => Linux Aix 3.8.0-29-generic #42~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14 15:31:16 UTC 2013 i686
Build Date => Feb 23 2014 02:56:19