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I'm on a new Macbook Pro 16" Sillicon Mac OS 12.3.1

• Cannot use XAMPP for new macs
• Cannot use in-built apache cos no php
• Started following this https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-install-php-on-a-mac-2694012
• Got up to the part where I was supposed to uncomment the php module so it can php but then discovered that PHP was deprecated in macOS 11 and removed from macOS 12
• also since i forgot - how to Quit the vi editor without saving your changes - Press Esc : q!
• https://wpbeaches.com/updating-to-php-versions-7-4-and-8-on-macos-12-monterey/
• disable the inbuilt and use home-brew - https://wpbeaches.com/installing-configuring-apache-on-macos-using-homebrew/
• couldn’t find where the documentroot folder is
• ran “brew info httpd”
• DocumentRoot is /opt/homebrew/var/www.
• discovered that Command-Shift-G brings up a window to access the secret linux style folders
• bookmarked it on mac

OUTDATED

Easiest way for Mac and Win is to use MAMP - https://www.mamp.info/en/

WINDOWS - MAMP:

• Download the installer from https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/ (300MB) - will have copy on thumbdrive in the class
• Install it, unchecking ‘Install MAMP PRO in addition to MAMP’
• By default it will install to C:\MAMP
• Now start MAMP from the window start menu
• Click on Start Servers
• Click on ‘Open start page’
• The page http://localhost/MAMP/ should now open up in your browser.
• Default documents folder is usually C:\MAMP\htdocs

MAC - Fastest way is to use Python SimpleHTTPServer

• All new Macs have Python installed. First open Terminal (Which can be found inside Applications > Utilities). Check which version of python you have by typing "python" into Terminal. Then navigate to the folder with your files inside it.

cd /path/to/project/folder 

Use Python's built-in http server:

# Python 2.x
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

# Python 3.x
python -m http.server

Files from that directory will be served up at localhost under port 8000, so you can view the files from that directory if you type this into the browser:

http://localhost:8000/

php 7 doesn't parse

after upgrading mac to mojave 10.14 my php files did not render as webpages but displayed code in the browser. here is the fix

edit httpd.conf

sudo pico /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

uncomment this line

#LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

save and close pico ctrl-X

then restart apache

sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

mojave 10.14

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-13841