Enable PHP module on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

OS X 10.11 El Capitan Beta 5 which was released on August 19 comes pre-built with PHP 5.5.27 and Apache 2.4.16. You can start Apache web server using ‘apachectl‘ command as root / super user. However by default the PHP module is not enabled.

If you are new to web development using Mac, you may ask how to enable PHP module on OS X 10.11 El Capitan along with Apache web server.

You can follow this simple task as below:

1. Uncomment the ‘php5_module’ to load the module.

Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and uncomment the following line:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

2. Still in editing the file, inside the ‘mime_module’ directive, add the following line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

3. You may also need to activate ‘index.php’ file by adding it inside ‘dir_module’ directive as below:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Restart the apache service then try to access a .php file (for example info.php which shows php information)

I hope this brief post will be useful for all of you who want to activate PHP module with Apache on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.