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Asked: 2026-06-10T12:10:35+00:00

first I am new to macs, I just installed PHP 5.4.6 on my machine

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first I am new to macs, I just installed PHP 5.4.6 on my machine after downloading the PHP package from http://www.php.net, I unzipped it and navigated to the directory through the terminal, then I ran the following commands:

./configure --with-config-file-path=~/php-5.4.6/php.ini
make
make test
sudo make install

I restarted the Apache with sudo apachectl graceful but and when I gone to the info.php it still said PHP 5.3.13 the default version that macs shipped with, I tried to run echo $PATH I got this result /usr/local/php5:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin when I searched the internet they said something about changing the path because the default PHP is installed on /usr/local/php5 and the new one is installed on /usr/local/bin/, when I run /usr/local/bin/php -v I get 

PHP 5.4.6 (cli) (built: Aug 18 2012 22:52:55) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

So I wanted to know how to update that path.

Thanks in advance and sorry for being long.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You will need to point your httpd.conf configuration to use your new mod_php library… assuming that you passed the proper –with-apxs2 flag during the build.

    If using the built-in Apache server, see: /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

    LoadModule php5_module <MY_NEW_PATH>/libphp5.so
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