I’ve installed php using this guide. It worked and my script seems to work with
php /var/www/html/folder/file.php
At least it doesn’t give me an error message. The script sends a get request to an outside API which is then written to a .txt file. I then read it on page load with javascript and display it on my site. The problem is that none of the text files get updated. It works on my local apache server that I set up on my computer, but not on my website. I know it’s probably better to use mySQL but that’s not something I know how to do (though I am planning to learn).
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The guide you followed is for a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) environment but the command you are showing is attempting to run a php script from the command line. Ubuntu packages the command line and apache(mod_php) versions separately.
To install the CLI version of PHP you would need to run:
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