having reinstalled my server i am unable to install WP. It keeps telling me php is not running, IT IS, version 7 in fact. This is getting beyond a joke. 4 frickin days spent on this nonsense.
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Can you share some details on what steps you took to install your webserver (and what server you are running) and PHP?
If you are running Nginx as your web server you will need php-fpm installed, configured and running in order to process PHP scripts.
If you are running Apache ensure you have libapache2-mod-php installed and not just the CLI version of PHP.
Another thing to check is that your WordPress files and folders are owned by the user the web server is running as. On Ubuntu this will be www-data by default.
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