PHP not interpreted, showing in view source

Question

I\'m hoping that this will be a useful page for getting started running php code as well as solve the current problem I\'m having some very simple code as follows:

Answer 1

If you have the contents of the web page in user directory like:

/home/*/public_html

Then you need to enable executing those, it's disabled by default:

# Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default
# 
# To re-enable PHP in user directories comment the following lines
# (from  to .) Do NOT set it to On as it
# prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.

    
        php_admin_flag engine Off
    

Just comment out this piece of code located in the file:

/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.3.conf

Adjust the path and file name to your system, PHP version, etc.