Php not working?

Question

I got this demo http://www.coolphptools.com/color_extract#demo working in xampp on Windows. But now I want to use it on apache2 in Ubuntu. I installed apache2 and php 7 and put the files into /var/www/html/ But I think php is not working. It only shows the html part but nothing from the php code... Do I need to install something else?

I also ran

a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
a2enconf php7.0-fpm
service apache2 reload

after installing php 7 but it doesn't work.

I thought it might be a problem with the php, because no php from the demo was working.
But when I add a simple php script to get the current time, that is working fine. So now I am even more confused what is causing this issue... Maybe it is a problem with the code? But why did it work fine on xampp?

I also double checked the answer on this PHP script not executing on Apache server post. And everything seems to be correct

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 11:20

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sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

will install everything you need and will start the apache server with support for PHP.

To verify that the php module is loaded, type:

a2query -m php5

if not enabled, then load with:

sudo a2enmod php5

and restart apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

answered Nov 09 '16 at 11:20

Sukhjinder Singh

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Thanks for the comment but I tried that already :) I found the problem was an image library for php called php-gd – Alexander S. Nov 09 '16 at 11:25
can you please share the problem in details – Sukhjinder Singh Nov 09 '16 at 11:26
I had to run sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd to implement the gd library which was required for the demo. I didnt notice that because I did not need it on xampp. – Alexander S. Nov 09 '16 at 11:28
follow the link it may help you https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-php-7-on-ubuntu-14-04 – Sukhjinder Singh Nov 09 '16 at 11:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 09 '16 at 12:21

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Ok so I didn't notice,

Requirements:

PHP 4.0.2 or higher
GD2 image library

On the website of the demo. I had to run:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd

to implement the gd library.

edited Nov 09 '16 at 12:21

Benny

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answered Nov 09 '16 at 11:24

Alexander S.

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Php not working?

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