PHP in html prints code instead of executing

Question

I am trying to run a simple php code on my localhost and it seems to be acting wierd.

My HTML code

<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Cloud Computing</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="url.php" method="post">
<table border="0">
<tr> 
    <td>Input</td>
    <td align="center"><input type="text" name="username" size="30" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Submit"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

my PHP code

<html>
 <head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>PHP Test</title>
 </head>
 <body>

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo date_default_timezone_get() . ' => ' . date('e') . ' => ' . date('T');
?>


 </body>
</html>

My Localhost Screenshot

Tried

http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-install-lamp-on-ubuntu
Ran php -r 'echo "\n\nYour PHP installation is working fine.\n\n\n";' Results in Your PHP installation is working fine.
Restarted the server
Referred Derek Banas's video on youtube and both the code seems fine.

Its weird as neither does it print the whole code and neither does it execute it.

Kindly help , I am using ubuntu 16.04, running my localhost from ubuntu itself.

I tried the solutions here too. Maybe I am doing something wrong (Newbie Alert !)

your code is workes fine America/Los_Angeles => America/Los_Angeles => PST. Check your installation .. — Abdulla Nilam, Mar 06 '17 at 09:19
I just ran the php code in my webserver and it worked so it has to do somthing with your webserver — Cyber_Star, Mar 06 '17 at 09:20
php -v
PHP 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 (cli) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies — Pandeyji, Mar 06 '17 at 09:20
is it the php version?
I am running the server in ubuntu ( Not using XAMPP or WAMP) How can I check the php config for that?

Sorry I am new to this ! — Pandeyji, Mar 06 '17 at 09:22
Possible duplicate of PHP script not executing on Apache server — muru, Mar 06 '17 at 09:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

The code was not an issue,

Just tried re-installing php as Ubuntu has moved to 7(even though I had 7)

1> sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php

This seemed to work for me !

The link below helped . PHP script not executing on Apache server

Thank you all for your help. @Cyber_star "

I just ran the php code in my webserver and it worked so it has to do somthing with your webserver "

I followed your lead via this comment ! Thanks again!

PHP in html prints code instead of executing

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