Ubuntu Networking :: Localhost Can Read Phpinfo() But Not Index.php?

Installed apache2 and php5, got the message "It works!" and phpinfo() displays the info page from withing the my folder. But when i put my index.php and rest of the files in www/mysite/ I only get a blank page displaying nothing, as if my php scripts wont parse. If I create a plain html "hello world" doc it displays that.. I've used this guide before [URL] and got it to work last time some months ago, but this time around after clean ubuntu reinstall it's showing nothing, remember I struggled with some permission things last time doing sudo chmod a+rwx /var/www/* and same for subfolders css and images. but now nothing happens, no errors or nothing. I didnt have to do enything else last time, no php.ini or nothing, it just worked, after I set permissions to get css and images to display correctly. Tried to put my files in www alone but dont work either (also cannot delete the default index.html in the www folder). Tried to restart apache2 and the computer, but no luck. My site also works online from other servers, so this is a local problem.