php file is returned as code without executing in wamp server

Question

I want to access HTML data in the PHP file to add two numbers. Below is the HTML code to take user input-

addnumber.html

  <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
   <form action="add.php" method="POST"> 
     <input type="number" name="fno"/>
     <input type="number" name="sno"/>
  <input type="submit"/>
   </form>
 </body>
</html>

Below id the add.php file code

<?php 
 $a = $POST['fno'];
  $b = $POST['sno'];
  $ans = $a+$b;
  echo $ans;
?>

But after clicking the submit button in the chrome PHP code is shown instead of the result of two number addition.

Is the file code not running because I need to use localhost:8080 instead of localhost. Please help if possible.

Note: I can run PHP using http://localhost:8080/programs/add.php line.

have you tried using the whole url in the `action` attribute? like `action="http://localhost:8080/programs/add.php"` — GGw, Aug 14 '19 at 05:59
It is showing Undefined variable: POST in C:\xampp\htdocs\programs\add.php on line 2 but I am not using xmpp, I am using wamp — Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta, Aug 14 '19 at 06:01
Check if all services in wamp are running. just put your cursor on top of WAMP icon, it will tell you like 3/3 running. — Gabriel, Aug 14 '19 at 06:10
How do you access the page "addnumber.html"? Is it's URL http://localhost:8080/programs/addnumber.html ? — Michael Krutikov, Aug 14 '19 at 06:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '19 at 06:20

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I changed the port from 80 to 8080 for Apache and it works.

answered Aug 14 '19 at 06:20

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