How do I enable PHP on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8?

Asked Jul 29 '12 at 03:35

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Just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and wanted to make PHP work on the built-in version of Apache.

asked Jul 29 '12 at 03:35

anildash

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The same way as in previous versions. Check http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23751/how-to-turn-mac-os-x-lion-into-a-web-server/23757#23757 – Gerry Jul 29 '12 at 08:58

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Edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Find the line that says LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so and uncomment it by editing out the # at the beginning of the line. (Then save the file, obviously.)
Go to Terminal and type sudo apachectl graceful at the console:

answered Jul 29 '12 at 03:35

anildash

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I highly doubt that Apple provides an up-to-date PHP version for this. – Dec 08 '12 at 09:55