We are going to double-check that Apache can render PHP scripts by quickly creating a phpinfo
page that will display a wide array of data about your configuration.
1. Open your text editor.
2. Create a new file that contains the following code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
3. Save the file with the name,
info.php
, and save that file in the following location:/Library/WebServer/Documents/info.php
.4. Open your browser.
5. Navigate your browser to
http://localhost/info.php
.6. Your browser will display the following page:
We used our text editor to create a file called info.php
that contained a special PHP function called phpinfo
. We saved the info.php
file into the folder: /Library/Webserver/Documents
. This folder is the default location (in Mac OS X only) for all of the files that your Apache service will display. When your browser hit the info.php
page, the phpinfo
looked at your PHP installation and returned an HTML file with details...