PHP/Freetype problem

I'm successfully using the PHP 5.6.x version from

http://php-osx.liip.ch/

with OS X 10.11.5 and Server 5.1.5

After every update of the Server.app you have check and possibly modify web server settings again to make sure, that the web service uses the Liip PHP version.

Config file:

/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf

This is the line that loads the PHP version provided by Apple:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

If you just want to comment this line out, then do it this way:

#LoadModule add_some_comment_here_for_example_the_date_when_you_made_the_change php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Otherwise the Server.app might try to re-enable this line when you check the "enable PHP" checkbox in the Web Server panel.

Then either replace it with this line or add this line:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

Here this works without any issues.

IMO the /etc/apache2 config files will not be used at all by the Apache version which is part of OS X Server. Also the apachectl commands will have no effect.

You have to restart the web service either by using the GUI of the the Server.app (Stop the web service - wait a few seconds until it completely stopped - then start the web service again) or using the command line with the commands

sudo serveradmin stop web

to disable the web services and

sudo serveradmin start web

to enable the web services.

This should reload the configuration of the Apache instance used by OS X Server.

I would suggest, that you set up a test machine with just OS X 10.11.5, OS X Server 5.1.5 and Liip PHP installed, patch the config file as described above, enable Web services on this server and then you check this again by opening a prepared info.php file in the default web site folder of this testserver on the testserver itself with a web browser

http://127.0.0.1/info.php

Content of info.php:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

If everything was done correctly, this should show the PHP version from Liip including Freetype and mcrypt.