php on MacOS HighSierra Server not working (for me)

ghoti · Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:41 am

Environment:

MacBook Air
OSX 10.13.6 (HighSierra)
[OSX] Server 5.6.1
PHP 7.1.16
Safari 11.1.2
Chrome 67.0.3396.99

Background:

A year or so ago, I was playing around with developing a site that utilized some PHP directives, and it was working.
I stopped working on it for a (long) while, and since then have certainly upgraded the OS X Server software, and probably the OS as well.
I decided to play with it again, but now the PHP directives do not seem to be working and I have not been able to figure out why and (more importantly) how to fix it.
The PHP code I used in the original HTML code was of the form:
- <?php include "html/xxx.html"?>
When I wasn't seeing the content I expected (from the to-be included files), I added the following at the very top of the <body> section:
- <?php echo "Hello"; ?>
Nothing (from the PHP standpoint) is showing up, and it was clear from looking at the "network" section of the page inspection console that the files to-be included were not being fetched - but there didn't seem to be any errors indicating that/why PHP wasn't working.

Miscellaneous Details:

Modified /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
- Uncommented the line: LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so
- Changed DocumentRoot specification to match ~/Sites path
- Modified the <Directory "xxx"> reference just below to also match the ~/Sites path
- (References: Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf)
- Uncommented: LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so
- Uncommented: Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

/private/etc/apache2/other/php7.conf contains the following:

Code: Select all

    <IfModule php7_module>
      AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
      AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

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

The referenced library is:
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13429248 Jul 4 09:02 /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp7.so
Modified /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf:
- Changed DocumentRoot specification to match ~/Sites path
Modified /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:
- Replaced second example directive with one specific for my test site
In the Server UI, it shows "Enable PHP" as being checked, and the following command shows the (further) following output:
- # apachectl -M | grep -in php
  30: php7_module (shared)
  #
Thoughts?

Ideas?

Other steps I should take to try to debug / fix this?

--fish