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Homebrew Installation

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

Install PHP 7.3

brew install [email protected]

Apache Installation

Unload apachectl

sudo apachectl stop
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist 2>/dev/null

Install httpd

brew install httpd
sudo brew services start httpd

Apache PHP Setup

You have successfully installed PHP, but you need to tell Apache to use it. Edit the httpd.conf file.

vi /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf 

Find Listen 8080 and change it to port 80:

Listen 80

Uncomment the following lines.

LoadModule socache_shmcb_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
LoadModule ssl_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule userdir_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so

Add the following entry at the end of the LoadModules section:

LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

Update user and group.

User username
Group staff

Servername is disabled by default, set it to localhost:

#ServerName www.example.com:8080
ServerName localhost

Modify httpd.conf a bit more.

<Directory "/usr/local/var/www">
    AllowOverride None
    
to

<Directory "/usr/local/var/www">
    AllowOverride All

Check that directive DirectoryIndex includes index.php.

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

And we need to add the FilesMatch directive so that Apache will now process PHP files.

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

Uncomment to enable User home directories, Virtual hosts and Secure (SSL/TLS) connections.

Include /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
Include /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Include /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

Restart apache.

sudo apachectl -k restart

Run a configuration file syntax test to verify/validate the configuration. It reports Syntax Ok or detailed information about the particular syntax error. This is equivalent to apachectl -t.

$ sudo apachectl configtest

If it says "Syntax OK" open browser using http://127.0.0.1. You should see a message saying, “It works!”

SSL/Virtual Hosts

Change default 8443 ports to 443 in the SSL configuration file.

$ vi /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

Replace all lines that say '8443' with '443'.

ServerName www.example.com:443

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

In Terminal, restart Apache.

sudo apachectl restart

MySQL Installation

Install MySQL with Homebrew.

brew install mysql@8

Have MySQL start on boot.

brew services start mysql

Finally, let's improve the security of your installation and add a password.

mysql_secure_installation

Restart the MySQL server.

brew services restart mysql

After MySQL Server is started, you can log in:

mysql -uroot -p'[password]'

Add to [mysqld] section of my.cnf file (found in /usr/local/etc/ for Homebrew's installation):

default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password

At shell prompt:

mysql -u root -p
    
> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost'
   IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password
   BY '[password]';

> exit

Reboot server

brew services restart mysql