Installing httpd and php in Mac OS 12

Question

I updated my MacOS to Monterey (12.0.1) and my PHP stopped working. MacOS 12 seem to have removed PHP support.

I'm currently trying to configure everything using homebrew.

After installation, when I try to start the httpd, I'm getting the following errors-

user@Laptop folder % /opt/homebrew/opt/httpd/bin/httpd -D FOREGROUND                  
dyld[15738]: Symbol not found: _apr_bucket_file_set_buf_size
  Referenced from: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/httpd/2.4.51/bin/httpd
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.dylib
zsh: abort      /opt/homebrew/opt/httpd/bin/httpd -D FOREGROUND

Am I missing any package for _apr_bucket_file_set_buf_size?

Answer 1

Yeah, what a nightmare! PHP is no longer supported natively in MacOS 12. I switched to Homebrew's Apache (httpd) package.

But switching from native Apache to Homebrew's Apache wasn't easy.

There are lots of guides out there on how to install Homebrew's Apache. I won't go into them here.

But after installing, configuring, and starting, I was receiving a similar error to your "apr_bucket" error. I ran brew reinstall apr-util and that did the trick. Found it here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41871228/1623341

After that, I removed Homebrew's Apache brew remove httpd, then reinstalled brew install httpd, then updated the httpd.conf file, then started brew services start httpd. That seemed to do the trick for me.