I bought a server online and installed LAMP on in (with 1-click, I didn't configure anything).

I now need to create a dynamic page using php, but if a create a file test.php with the following code:

<?php

echo "Hello!";

?>

When I connect to http://serverIP/test.php instead of showing me an empty page which says Hello! it keeps downloading test.php on my computer as a file!

Please note:

1. test.php is in /var/www/html next to index.html and many others .html files that work correctly.




2. If I type php -v in the command-line it says that

   
   
   

   php 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 is installed.




3. When I type a2enmod php7.0 it says

   
   
   

   Module php7.0 already enabled




4. With LAMP i got installed Ubuntu 16.04 and Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu).




5. can't see a folder named "modules" in /etc/apache2




6. When I modify any file I also restart apache (service apache2 restart)

This is how my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf looks like (without all the comments):

Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default

PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}

Timeout 300

KeepAlive On

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 5

User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}

HostnameLookups Off

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

LogLevel warn

Include ports.conf

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Require all denied

</Directory>



<Directory /usr/share>

    AllowOverride None

    Require all granted

</Directory>



<Directory /var/www/>

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Require all granted

    <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>

        php_admin_flag engine on

    </IfModule>

    <IfModule mod_php5.c>

        php_admin_flag engine on

    </IfModule>

</Directory>

AccessFileName .htaccess

<FilesMatch "^.ht">

    Require all denied

</FilesMatch>

LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %O "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" vhost_combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %O "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %O" common

LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer

LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf

IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf





#the following lines are what I added

LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so ### in "etc/apache2" there isn't a folder named "modules" ###

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

<FilesMatch .php$>

    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

</FilesMatch>