Cannot get Apache or php to run with Homebrew

[patrickg6]

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I cannot get Apache to run or load PHP 8.1 after I installed Homebrew. I am running Mac OS 14.0. When I attempt to restart Apache with "Apachectl restart" I get the following:
AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/opt/homebrew/opt/httpd/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist
AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/opt/homebrew/opt/httpd/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist
httpd not running, trying to start
(13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 127.0.0.1:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs

I would like to get PHP working. Any help would be appreciated.

[rantirules]

The first two warnings is related to Apache being unable to find the default document root directories so your httpd.conf file may not have been configured properly so open up your httpd.conf file and look for something along the lines of:

DocumentRoot "/opt/homebrew/opt/httpd/docs/dummy-host.example.com"

Make sure to change it so that it points to the correct path of where your files for your website are located (you should be able to find this under /usr/local/etc/httpd/ or /etc/apache2/

The permission denied means that either another programme is already using port 80 or for some reason your settings means that Apache doesn't have the necessary permissions to use that port. So make sure no other programmes are using that port and check that by doing

sudo lsof -i :80

And if the permissions are the problem just do the following

sudo apachectl restart

At this point try again, otherwise make sure everything is installed properly

brew install [email protected]

And then to configure Apache in your httpd.conf file make sure you have this

LoadModule php_module /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so
AddHandler php-script .php
Include /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/php_module.conf

Again make sure the paths match your actual installation paths.

You might need to do

sudo apachectl restart

To make sure you are not running into permission issues

[patrickg6]

Permissions was the problem. Is there a way to fix this?

[rantirules]

Ok in that case you can look at the log files they are normally under /var/log/apache2/ and then check the permissions by running

ls -l /var/log/apache2/

The owner should be the Apache user (usually www-data or apache) and the group should also be similar (www-data or apache group).
If the permissions are incorrect, you can adjust them with using chown and chmod
You can do something like:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/apache2/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/log/apache2/

Also make sure Apache has the correct permissions to access the DocumentRoot directory (the directory where your website files are stored). And again you can use the ls -l command to check the permissions of your DocumentRoot directory and again also use the chown and chmod commands to make adjustments.

Also make sure to restart Apache to apply the changes

sudo apachectl restart

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