Apache + PHP - Internal Server Error + (13)Permission denied

Question

Trying to get php working on my localhost.

PHP has been code signed correctly and is running:

AH06662: Allowing module loading process to continue for module at /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so because module signature matches authority "Mo" specified in LoadModule directive

Yet, when I try to open: /phpinfo.php I run into the following error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at [email protected] to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

In errorlog I am seeing the following:

[Thu Oct 26 16:40:53.069155 2023] [cgi:error] [pid 3910] [client ::1:52319] AH01215: (13)Permission denied: exec of '/Users/mo/Sites/1/phpinfo.php' failed: /Users/mo/Sites/1/phpinfo.php
[Thu Oct 26 16:40:53.071058 2023] [cgi:error] [pid 3910] [client ::1:52319] End of script output before headers: phpinfo.php

Does (13)Permission denied mean that I need to chmod +a "_www allow execute" ... something to do with the PHP execution? macOS 14 is really making things complicated.

Answer 1

I followed part of this tutorial on Grav:

Also you must set the Directory Indexes for PHP explicitly, so search for this block:

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

and replace it with this:

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

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

This seemed to solve my issues.