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In this post we see how to change the PHP version of Apache in MacOS Catalina.

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MacOS Catalina comes with Apache and PHP 7.3 already preinstalled.
Sometimes we may need to run a different version of PHP with Apache.
For example Magento 2 needs PHP 7.2 to run .

Install PHP 7.2 using Homebrew

To checkout the current PHP version, run:

In my case, it was PHP 7.3.

So, first we need to install the PHP version we need. I used Homebrew to install PHP 7.2.

Next, I enabled PHP 7.2 as my default PHP version for the cli. (zsh):

Or, if you use bash, use the following:

(If you watch the terminal output during PHP 7.2 installation, you’ll see that Homebrew gives us these commands.)

Now, run the following command again and you should see that PHP 7.2 is enabled.

Change Apache PHP version to PHP 7.2

If you run phpinfo() in a browser, you see that although we changed the PHP version of the cli to PHP 7.2, Apache still uses PHP 7.3.

Let’s change that.
In the terminal, run the following command to edit Apache configuration file:

Macos Catalina Apache Vhosts

To disable PHP 7.3, find the following line and comment it out by entering # at the beginning:

To enable PHP 7.2, paste the following line, bellow the previous.

Restart Apache:

Refresh the browser and you should see that Apache is now using PHP 7.2

Macos Catalina Apache Download

That’s it!

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Macos Catalina Apache Junction