LAMP stack's PHP not working (Ubuntu 13.10 / Apache 2.4.6)

Question

Having problems with PHP on my LAMP stack: PHP scripts aren't being parsed at all. I setup Ubuntu 13.10 on clear machine... And I see now there only clear HTML from page but PHP tags are just like text

Actually, what I have:

$ /usr/sbin/apache2ctl status | grep Version

Server Version: Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1

$ tail -n 1 /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Sat Dec 14 19:33:16.307184 2013] [core:notice] [pid 15457] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

$ apache2ctl -S

VirtualHost configuration:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server videosurgeon.ll (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vs.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost videosurgeon.ll (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vs.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost videosurgeon.ll (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vs.conf:1)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl 
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
Mutex rewrite-map: using_defaults
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
Group: name="www-data" id=33 not_used

$ apache2ctl -M | grep php

 php5_module (shared)

$ cat /work/VS/httpdocs/test.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>

$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vs.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName videosurgeon.ll

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

    DocumentRoot /work/VS/httpdocs/

    <Directory /work/VS/httpdocs/>
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,alert, emerg.
    LogLevel notice

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</virtualHost>

$ /usr/bin/php --version

PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:22:11) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.3-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2013, by Zend Technologies

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UPD.1: it's mine apache2.conf : http://ge.tt/6Yd8Jj91/v/0

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UPD.2: Today I умут tried to remove everything and just re-install LAMP. The result is exactly the same: PHP does not works.

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

But also interesting that phpmyadmin works fine. I just install it as:

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cgi phpmyadmin 

It turns out that there (in phpmyadmin) are some settings that give it to use PHP...

Answer 1

Just had the same problem. You have to use <?PHP instead of <? or change the following config:

/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

; This directive determines whether or not PHP will recognize code between
; <? and ?> tags as PHP source which should be processed as such. It's been
; recommended for several years that you not use the short tag "short cut" and
; instead to use the full <?php and ?> tag combination. With the wide spread use
; of XML and use of these tags by other languages, the server can become easily
; confused and end up parsing the wrong code in the wrong context. But because
; this short cut has been a feature for such a long time, it's currently still
; supported for backwards compatibility, but we recommend you don't use them.
; Default Value: On
; Development Value: Off
; Production Value: Off
; http://php.net/short-open-tag
short_open_tag = On