PHP site does not start on a virtual machine in UBUNTU 18.04, what should I do?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon! Help solve the problem.
Ubuntu server 18.04
is installed on the virtual machine. PHP 7.2, Apache2 - 2.4.29, MySQL 5.7 are also installed.
There is a simple site in PHP. I set everything up as best I could according to the manuals on the Internet, it seems like it should work, but when you output it in the browser, you don’t understand what is displayed. 5 days I'm sitting reinstalling / setting up the server, but nothing happens.
Help with the issue.

Answer 1

It doesn't quite look like the php handler doesn't work at all... phpinfo() returns, doesn't it?
Maybe it's short_open_tag, which must be enabled for your script, and which are disabled by default?

Answer 2

Are the permissions set correctly? There you need to set permissions on your php project folder so that Apache, etc. can read / write. Otherwise, he is denied access even for reading.