Make sense of piwik error on Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache2

General questions
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I reconfigured my Apache web server and vhosts last week and piwik is no longer working. I started fresh with piwik by re-downloading the source into my public_html directory and extracting the zip file. When I navigate to my piwik landing page in my browser, instead of getting the piwik landing page, I get this output.

Since I don’t understand PHP, does anyone know what is piwik could be trying to tell me here?

I tried Googling some of the strings in that traceback, such as:

require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . /core/dispatch.php

but I couldn’t makes sense of most of the search results.

I also tried asking in #piwik on FreeNode last week, but that channel is kinda inactive.

Thanks for your attention.

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The output means that instead of executing the php script the browser is sending it to the browser. That means that php is not configured on your server.

Note: After you have fixed the issue, please change your MySQL password. Everyone who knows your piwik url can request the config.php and see your MySQL password in there.

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Hi @Findus23! Thank you for pointing out the very serious security hole on my site. After reading your reply on Saturday, I right away changed my MySQL password, uninstalled MySQL and stopped my Apache service.

I’ve got some other issues to resolve related to my vhosts. If I encounter any further questions about piwik, I will be sure to return to this forum.

Thanks again, Findus23.