index.php file shown when trying to load wesite

Question

I am trying to make a website as a task for my university. I used this tutorial: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-wordpress#1-overview the first time I did it it was fine , but I messed up the website so I decided to purge and do it all over again. But when I try to load the website when I , once again , followed the instructions from the site above, I am greeted by this message :

//<?php
/**
/ * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define( 'WP_USE_THEMES', true );

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require __DIR__ . '/wp-blog-header.php';

it seems to be the index.php file. How do I make the website go up again ?

Answer 1

Make sure php is up and running. Looks like apache is configured to show the website correctly if you are able to see the index.php page. Are you accessing the site using http://localhost or something like that? If so then open your terminal and enter php -v If nothing shows you need to reinstall php.