Installing PHP in UBUNTU

This is a way to install PHP, type or paste this into your terminal:

# sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Once it's finished installing, restart apache, using:

# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Testing PHP
Now, let's make sure that PHP is working properly. To do this, we're going to run phpinfo(). You can, of course, swap out gedit with your editor of choice.

# sudo gedit /var/www/phpinfo.php



Type or paste the following into the document, and save it. (remove the space before the '?php')

< ?php phpinfo(); ?>


Now we can test PHP by browsing to:

http://localhost/phpinfo.php