Run PHP on a Mac using Apache

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$ edit httpd.conf to match your local filesystem
$ mkdir tmp logs public php
$ mv public.php public/
$ cp <your php.ini> to php/php.ini
$ apachectl -f /Users/jjulian/runphp/httpd.conf -t
$ apachectl -f /Users/jjulian/runphp/httpd.conf -k start
$ curl -D - http://localhost:8888

httpd.conf

ServerRoot  /Users/jjulian/runphp
PidFile     tmp/httpd.pid
LockFile    tmp/accept.lock
User        jjulian
ServerName  localhost
Listen      8888
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
  StartServers          5
  MinSpareServers       5
  MaxSpareServers       5
  MaxClients            10
  MaxRequestsPerChild   0
</IfModule>

LoadModule authz_host_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule log_config_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_mime.so
LoadModule autoindex_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule negotiation_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule php5_module /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  PHPIniDir /Users/jjulian/runphp/php
  <IfModule mime_module>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
  </IfModule>
  <IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

DocumentRoot "/Users/jjulian/runphp/public"
<Directory /Users/jjulian/runphp/public>
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from 127.0.0.1, localhost
</Directory>

index.php

<?php echo 1 + 2 ?>