两个版本的PHP-Mountain Lion

Question

I have somehow got 2 versions of php installed on my machine (Mac OSx 10.8.3 Mountain Lion). The locations of the 2 versions are -

1. /opt/local/bin (version 5.3.26)
2. /usr/bin (version 5.3.14)

Right now, 'php -v' in the terminal returns, 5.3.26 but a simple php test page with the following code

phpinfo();

return 5.3.15.

Because of this mix-up i cant get php to load the mongodb extension. I'd want to work with version 5.3.26.

How do i get Apache to load this version of php ?

Answer 1

Your Apache is including libphp5.so of the wrong/the other installation.

Option 1:

See if you can find a libphp5.so file for your other PHP installation and point the Apache config to it (just put the whole path in the LoadModule line and restart Apache). If you cannot find such a file, the Apache module wasn't compiled for that PHP version. Compiling that may be a bit complicated, so in that case:

Option 2:

Figure out which PHP you're executing on the command line using which php and then just use the other one using the full path, eg instead of $ php ... use $ /usr/bin/php ... . Note that you may still have different PHP configuration files for Apache and the CLI.