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How to: Enable PHP on Leopard

October 29th, 2007 ·

Finding the config file

This one took me a while but I figured out the apache config now lives in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. To enable PHP 5 you need to crack open that file as root to edit it. Using vi:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Or using Textmate

sudo mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 

Enabling PHP

Find the line which loads the PHP 5 module, which looks like this:

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

The line is currently commented out. All we have to do is remove the comment symbol, #

, so the line looks like this:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Save.

Now stop and start apache2 using either the Sharing control panel or by typing:

 sudo apachectl restart

from the command prompt.

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