Apache2 response is mangled php

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My local apache2 server is not playing nice with my grav setup. I can run the local server bin/grav server and it looks fine when I browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000 so I assume I have PHP and dependencies working okay.
When I try and run from apache it’s not so good. I get what looks like a mangled attempt to display php as html, or just text:

php -S {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}:{$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']} system/router.php"); } } // Ensure vendor libraries exist $autoload = __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; if (!is_file($autoload)) { die('Please run: bin/grav install'); } // Register the auto-loader. $loader = require $autoload; // Set timezone to default, falls back to system if php.ini not set date_default_timezone_set(@date_default_timezone_get()); // Set internal encoding. @ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8'); mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8'); use Grav\Common\Grav; use RocketTheme\Toolbox\Event\Event; // Get the Grav instance $grav = Grav::instance(array('loader' => $loader)); // Process the page try { $grav->process(); } catch (\Error|\Exception $e) { $grav->fireEvent('onFatalException', new Event(array('exception' => $e))); throw $e; }

It looks like it might be trying to signal an error but I can’t see what.
My apache2 default page shows up okay (localhost:80) and to get apache2 to see my local grav site I added this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName grav
    ServerAlias grav
    DocumentRoot /home/roger/public_html/grav
    <Directory /home/roger/public_html/grav>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog logs/localhost-error_log
    CustomLog logs/localhost-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

and I edited my /etc/hosts to declare the grav host at 127.0.0.1.

If I browse to an index.html file I put in that directory (http://grav/index.html) it does show up just fine. So the problem occurs when it hits the index.php file.
It must be something I have missed in the apache2 setup. Anyone know what I missed?

PHP version 8.1.2
Grav 7.1
Ubuntu 22.04
apache2 2.4.52

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Okay, I worked it out mostly by reading this page which had a lot of the steps for configuring apache that I missed.
Once I did that I still got a blank page but looking in the logs I found some permission errors and some missing dir errors which were simple enough to fix.
With those in place it came right.