Getting PHP working in Apache2 on Mac OS X Leopard

sam — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:42:38 +0000

As with OS X Leopard Server, the OS X Leopard standard OS is missing Apache config statements to enable PHP support. Of course with standard Leopard, you don’t get the fancy Server Admin tool to let us fix it via a GUI, so we do it by hand:

In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

Uncomment the php LoadModule statement:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Then within the section, add:

AddType application/x-httpd-php php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 php3
AddHandler php5-script php

Start or restart apache via the check box System Preferences -> Sharing -> Web Sharing

Getting PHP working in Apache2 on Mac OS X Server

sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000

In OS X Leopard, out of the box (at least on the System I got access to) Apache2 is missing an AddHandler statement for PHP, so PHP won’t work if you just enable the module. Here is how to fix that through Server Admin:

Check -> Web -> Settings -> Modules, php5_module is enabled.

In Settings -> MIME Types, check the following is present:

application/x-httpd-php      php

In Settings -> MIME Types -> Content Handlers, add the following:

php5-script      php

The resulting PHP entries in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf should look like this:

$ grep php httpd.conf
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
AddHandler php5-script php
AddType application/x-httpd-php php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 php3

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