Why is Apache2 giving 404?

Question

Apache HTTP Server

I installed Apache2 and php5 and created the info.php file in the /var/www/ directory (I have ubuntu), I wrote <?phpinfo()?> in the file, but when I go to localhost/info.php, I get this error :

Not Found

The requested URL /info.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

how to fix?

Answer 1

and in ubuntu the root of the server is usually in /var/www/html

Answer 2

check the permissions of the created file
or run
chown www-data.www-data -R /var/www/