How do you get php working on Mac OS X?

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AJA picture AJA · Jul 22, 2011 · Viewed 81.5k times · Source

I have recently updated to Lion and enabled Web Sharing in the System Preferences but I am unable to get php working.

I added an info file to the web root directory and it outputs the file as text.

info.php
with the content
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Answer

Matt Gibson picture Matt Gibson · Jul 22, 2011

(Edit: This method appears to work fine for 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite) and 10.11 (El Capitan), so I figured I'd mention that for any new influx of slightly frustrated OS X updaters :D )

Edit your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and make sure the line:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

...exists. I think it's commented out by default in the standard OS X config, but from what I remember, you just need to uncomment it, then re-start Apache:

sudo apachectl restart

And you should be good to go.

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