Now, we want our web server to run the file ‘index.php’. This is the default file that is displayed by our web server when we typed ‘localhost’ in the previous section. Search for the code segment by manually scrolling down or pressing Control+X and then typing On your terminal, type again the following Now we want to change the default file which is displayed by our localhost.

Let’s restart our web server by typing on terminal: Press Y, then press Enter and you will return back to terminal again.īy doing this, we activated our PHP that is pre-installed on MacOS Sierra. When you find that line, you should delete the “#” at the beginning and after that press Control+X to exit and you will be asked to save changes.

Or you can manually scroll down until you find the line that is written above. It should take you to the line that we would like to uncomment and activate. #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so You can press Control+W to skip to the line we are looking for (similar to cmd+f generally) and type Here, we will uncomment the line which is related with the PHP by removing the ‘#’ at the beginning of it. This time we will encounter a page that is unlike our standard terminal page but more similar to a text editor. You can press Control+W to skip to the line that you are looking for.

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