Attempting to install LAMP in Ubuntu 14.10, get 404 when attempting to access http://localhost/phptest.php, please advise.

[warpig]

After installing LAMP via tasksel, I'm able to access the "It works" test page at http://localhost/ however after creating phptest.php in var/www, I get a 404 when trying to access http://localhost/phptest.php. Any help would be appreciated.

 

My www directory:

bartosik@bartosik-ThinkPad-X131e:/$ cd var/www
bartosik@bartosik-ThinkPad-X131e:/var/www$ ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 13 20:34 html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   22 Dec 13 20:45 phptest.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   22 Dec 13 20:36 phptest.php~
bartosik@bartosik-ThinkPad-X131e:/var/www$

 

The contents of phptest.php:

 

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

[Wtalk2]

Try moving the phptest.php to /var/www/html

[warpig]

 

Try moving the phptest.php to /var/www/html

No dice.

 

My html directory: after moving the file:

bartosik@bartosik-ThinkPad-X131e:/var/www/html$ ls -l

total 16

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11510 Dec 13 20:34 index.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    22 Dec 13 20:45 phptest.php

bartosik@bartosik-ThinkPad-X131e:/var/www/html$

[Wtalk2]

Try running "sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html"??

[warpig]

Whelp, I'm an idiot. I was adding a . onto the link I was searching for. Thanks for your help wtalk.

[Wtalk2]

Whelp, I'm an idiot. I was adding a . onto the link I was searching for. Thanks for your help wtalk.

Haha, no problem glad I could help you