By billy12345
after following your page here on "how to install word press on my newly created LAMP server nothing changed, my default “apache” home page is still the index.html. do you have any advice?
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On your droplet, delete /var/www/html/index.html
Your new wordpress install should already be up and running at yourdomain.com/index.php but apache uses index.html as the default index file so apache will display that if present by default.
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