Where do I put my Hello world PHP file on Ubuntu?

Question

So I want to learn PHP, and I've installed it with "sudo apt-get install php5" on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I see it also installed Apache.

Now I've created my program, and I've saved it to a php file.

 <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> 

I know that I need to use something like http://localhost/myfile.php, but where do I put the file, so Apache will see it?

Answer 1

Pick a name for it lets use hello.php for this example.

On Ubuntu the folder is /var/www/html, NOT /var/www. You will need root access for that. So you save the file as /var/www/html/hello.php.

Open up a web browser and enter the following address:

localhost/hello.php

And BAM. There's you page.