How to configure PHP and Apache with Mac OS Monterey and above

 PHP has been removed since Monterey 

So we're going to install latest PHP using Home brew and edit the configuration files of apache web server so PHP web hosting is supported from local machine.

 - If you don't have Homebrew installed , use the below terminal command to set up home brew

     /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

 - Once the brew set up is success , feed the below command in terminal to instal latest PHP 

    brew install php

- start php using below command

   brew services start php

 - create sites directory under current user root directory using below command

     sudo mkdir ~/Sites

- open apache folder and create username.conf using below terminal command

     cd /etc/apache2/users

     sudo nano username.conf

- Feed the below text into the file and press Ctrl+o to save

    

    <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">

      AllowOverride All

      Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks 

      Require all granted

    </Directory>

 - Now let's open httpd.conf using the below command

     

     sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

- Uncomment the below lines from the above file

   LoadModule authz_core_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_core.so

   LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so

   LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so

   LoadModule include_module libexec/apache2/mod_include.so

   LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

- Add the following lines into the same above file

   

  LoadModule php_module /opt/homebrew/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so

  <FilesMatch \.php$>

  SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

  </FilesMatch>

- Uncomment the below line 

  Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

- Search for AllowOverride None in the file and replace with below text

    AllowOverride All

- Save the file by pressing Ctrl+o

- Open one more apache file using below command

    sudo nano /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

- Uncomment the below line and save it

  

    Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

- Restart the apache using below command

   sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

- Check if webserver is running by opening the below url in browser

   http://localhost

- To check if PHP is supported , let's create a php file in webserver directory and try acessing it in the browser

   sudo touch /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.php

   sudo nano /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.php

and enter the below text and save it.

   <?php 

    phpinfo(); 

  ?>

- Check if PHP is supported by opening below url in browser

 

   http://localhost/index.php

 

- If PHP is not signed yet , then you might get an error. Find the exact error message using below command in terminal

 apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS 

- If you find code signing issue in the above response, then Create a CA for code signing and do code signing

- Now feed below command to sign the php using terminal 

      codesign --sign "your-authority-name" --force --keychain ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db /opt/homebrew/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so

- Open the httpd.conf again and change the uncommented php line with below text

     LoadModule php_module /opt/homebrew/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so "your-authority-name"

- Restart the apache again with below command

    sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

- Access the PHP file again through browser, you should be able to see a proper php web page now