praxidice

Thanks for the response but I’d already been there and found it inadequate for my needs. It might be OK for someone with considerable WordPress experience as a refresher, but there is far too much not said for someone with no experience, especially if they have as massive workload and scarce time available. The site is for a non-profit advocacy organization that doesn’t need any bells and whistles … simplicity, reliability and ease of editing are the orders of the day. In previous lives I’ve resorted to writing my own documentation as that was the only way to ensure all the missing bits were included, unfortunately I just don’t have the time to stuff around at present … I need to get this website up yesterday and given that it looks like it would take me a week with WordPress, I’d do better re-coding the thing in html which I could do in a few hours.

Thanks for the responses

PHP is installed, note that php.info works fine

It sees index.html but not index.php even though httpd.conf is configured to see php files

I’m using FreeBSD

I have had two tenths of stuff-all experience with PHP, consequently don’t have a clue what you mean by
‘make sure you have visible php output. echo. or print. like
$_seeSomething = ” text that I want to see ” ;’

echo $_seeSomething;’

….. would you kindly provide a VERY pedantic explanation ??

do you have a plugin that allows php. like ezphp for when your in wp.

Never encountered that beast … maybe its a linux thing ??

I have what appears to be a similar issue in that whilst #apachectl -M tells me php5_module (shared) is OK, and the php.info test described at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-an-apache-mysql-and-php-famp-stack-on-freebsd-10-1 works fine, the URL for the machine running WordPress insists on showing only the default “it Works’ message. I’ve enabled debugging however I’m totally in the dark regarding where to find relevant information as I can’t see a debug log anyway. Seems there are some trivial albeit critical steps that aren’t obvious. For example ‘WP_DEBUG will cause all PHP errors, notices and warnings to be displayed’ … thats all very well but displayed WHERE ???????????