I have installed Apache2 MariaDB and PHP7 for use on localhost, but PHP does not work. The Apache webside looks as normal while phpinfo.php only gives me a blank page. I used to install with 'apt-get install lamp-server^', but I wanted MariaDB, so I installed every single package including some PHP extensions and phpmyadmin. I have no idea of how to get php working. Any clues?
~ # php -v
PHP 7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS )
phpinfo.php:
<? phpinfo(); ?>
1 Answer
The problem is that, by default, PHP 7 does not supports short open tags <?.
It is described in the article PHP tags from php.net.
You need to use the full open tag <?php. Or, if you have PHP programs which are written for previous versions of PHP, you can change this rule in these ways:
you can add next directive into
your-apache2-virtualhost.conf(or.htaccess) file:php_flag short_open_tag oninto the file
/etc/php/7.x/apache2/php.iniyou can set:short_open_tag = on
Don't forget to restart Apache2:
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
