Testing of PHP Fails

Question

I am trying to add a LAMP Web Server by following the instructions at "http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/42480/how-to-turn-your-home-ubuntu-pc-into-a-lamp-web-server/"

I ran the following command:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Everything seemed to install okay.

Testing of Apache worked fine using the localhost check

Next, I tried to test PHP by creating the file

sudo nano /var/www/testing.php
  <?php phpinfo(); ?>  

I checked to make sure the file is located in the following directory:

Root/var/www/testing.php

I then restarted Apache with the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart

Next I tried to load the following page in my web browser:

http://localhost/testing.php

I receive the following error message:

Not Found - The requested URL /testing.php was not found on this server. - Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

I checked to make sure PHP installed correctly using the following command:

~$ php --version

Which returned:

PHP 7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
  with Zend OPcache v7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by    Zend Technologies

Any ideas why I can not access testing php file, and why I am getting the 404 not found error message?

Answer 1

Check DocumentRoot in

/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

and

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

Answer 2

Changing the DocumentRoot to /var/www in the following configuration files solved the problem.

/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

and

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf