Laravel public / index.php显示为纯文本

Question

I just installed an existing Laravel project onto a web server by git cloning. I have done as much proper setup as possible as per Laravel guidelines, including setting up Apache Virtual Hosts like so:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin email@gmail.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project/public

    <Directory "/var/www/html/project/public">
       AllowOverride all
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /var/www/project/public
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

I have also set up directory ownership / file permissions to the best of my ability. However, when visiting the website, the contents of public/index.php are displayed instead of the website being loaded. I know this has certainly been addressed somewhere before, and I apologize if that's the case, but I haven't been able to find clear answers. Much appreciated.

Other things I have done:

• installed php (it came loaded with the server and is version 5.5.9)
• a2enmod rewrite
• service apache2 reload
• modification of .htaccess
• ensured the loaded page is not a cached one

Resources used:

• How To Install Laravel 5 Framework on Ubuntu 15.10, 14.04, 12.04 & LinuxMint
• How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Answer 1

This command fixed my problem:

apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

I suppose that this is a duplicate question because it is php related, but this may be helpful to keep around as it is in the context of Laravel.

Answer 2

The command:

a2enmod php7.2

did it for me.