apache restart error Segmentation fault: 11 $HTTPD "$@"

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I'm new to web development and wanted to create my own local server on mac os Sierra in order to do some development. I've followed a (few) tutorials on getting apache , php and mysql up and running, and have only made it to the php part ,which is where I am failing at the moment. I managed to access localhost via http://localhost/~username and found my directory there, however once I uncomment the php LoadModule in the httpd.conf my ability to access localhost fails and I am thrown with the error `ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED`. This is after I tried to restart apache using ``` sudo apachectl -k restart ``` Which threw this error: httpd not running, trying to start /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 92: 11399 Segmentation fault: 11 $HTTPD "$@" The error logs from `tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log`, had the following to say: AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist [Mon May 01 1…

Accepted Answer

The "Segmentation fault" error when starting Apache occurs because Apache tries to load both the old and the new version of php at the same time. Looking at these instructions: https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/upgrade-php-on-osx/ , the installation script creates a file that loads the new php 7 version in

```
/etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf
```

The script is also supposed to disable the loading of the old php version by, in the apache configuration file,

```
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
```

commenting out this line:

```
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
```

but it didn't do that for me. As soon as I commented it out manually, Apache started again using

```
sudo apachectl -k restart
```

apache restart error Segmentation fault: 11 $HTTPD "$@"

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