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 progra

Answer 1

Assuming you have php5 and apache2 installed and apache running, here's how to get to script execution quickly.

create script:

echo "Hello World
'; ?>" > /var/www/index.php

open browser:

gnome-open http://localhost/index.php
# or: 
sensible-browser http://localhost/index.php