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How to Enable PHP5 In Mac OS X Leopard

Friday, October 26 2007

I’ve seen a lot of visitors searching for information on enabling PHP5 in Mac OS X Leopard. It turns out to be quite easy. Leopard ships with Apache 2 and PHP 5 pre-installed. To enable PHP simply:

  • Open your favorite text editor and edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

  • Uncomment line number 114. It should read

    LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

  • Open System Preferences and go to Sharing

  • Stop and then restart Web Sharing

That’s it!

PS – If you want any easy way to setup and manage virtual hosts on your Mac, check out VirtualHostX.

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Originally from Nashville, I'm an engineer working for Yahoo! in San Francisco and paying my way with PHP and Cocoa.