Apache Issue after Installing OS X Yosemite

July 26, 2014

I recently updated to OS X Yosemite, and I was having issues with my Apache installation. Specifically, this is the error I was getting when i ran apachectl -t (to test Apache configuration):

httpd: Syntax error on line 527 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _unixd_config Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so Expected in: /usr/sbin/httpd in /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

And according to this Github issue here, it seems to be something to do with renaming of a file in Apache 2.4 (which Yosemite ships with). I followed the suggestion there, and you’re required to uncomment this line (remove the ‘#’ at the beginning of the line) in your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Make sure you run the command as root, then restart apache. All should work great now!

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