Can't find Localhost files

Question

Hope you can help. This is my first time trying Ubuntu/Linux.

I am logged in as root I have downloaded and installed LAMP and PHPMYADMIN. I get the test page under localhost say that It works and is installed Correctly. I have also put my files in the /var/www. they are PHP files When I put the address localhost/(page name.php) I get an error saying

 Not Found

 The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.
 Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

I Have put the files in the wrong folder?? If I look in the "/etc/ap[ache2/sites-available/default", It tells my my DocumentRoot is /var/www

Would love somehelp on this please

Many thanks GF

Solution 1

Check out error log (tail /var/log/apache2/error.log) in order to find out exact path that Apache tries to find.

Solution 2

I had the same problem and using the apache logs I've found that the solution is to place your php code inside /html folder so -

sudo mv /var/www/FILENAME.php /var/www/html

Comments

[Gokhan Sari]

How did you install LAMP and phpmyadmin?

[SirCharlo]

Please edit your question to add the output of ll -L /var/www

[blade19899]

did you name you page name.php index.php cause as the error says can't find index.php