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I've been struggling to get PHP up and running on my Mac. I have followed all the instructions on the previous discussion on this topic (How do you get php working on Mac OS X?) and it's still not working. When trying to open a .php file it displays it as the source code and doesn't even seem to recognise it as a PHP file, but calls it TextWrangler document instead.

In my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file I have done the following:

  • taken off the # in front of the LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  • changed User to my username
  • changed the DirectoryIndex to DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
  • changed DocumentRoot to /Users/myusername/Sites/
  • changed Directory to <Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/">
  • restarted Apache numerous times
  • switched web Sharing on and off
  • changed php.ini.default to php.ini

Still not working. Can you help?

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  • did you get a chance to add AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php – Satya Apr 07 '14 at 15:26
  • Just checked it, the handler applications are there.... When running 'sudo apachectl -t' to check the code I get the following message: "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using K-MacBook-Pro.local for ServerName Syntax OK." Not sure what to do next... – user3507339 Apr 07 '14 at 18:34
  • I just changed the ServerName to "localhost" and am not getting any more error messages, but the .php files still don't open correctly... (They still only show the source code) – user3507339 Apr 07 '14 at 18:49
  • Sorted! Turned out I was using the wrong URL. Should have been http://localhost/~username/test.php. What I was originally doing was Browser -> File (Which only prints out the content of a file). The way I'm doing it now is Browser (sends request to) > Apache Server (which reads and interprets the php file and responds) > Browser (reads response and displays interpreted php). – user3507339 Apr 07 '14 at 20:20

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