Running Magento 2 via FastCGI (not mod_php) on OS X via brew Packages

Apache + PHP-FPM with Homebrew

Step 0: Before we start

brew update
brew tap homebrew/services

Step 1: Apache

1.- Let's make sure to stop the build-in apache service

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist 2>/dev/null
sudo apachectl stop

2.- Install apache2.4

brew install homebrew/apache/httpd24 --with-privileged-ports

This step will take a while since it has to compile Apache.

3.- Verify it was installed correctly, you should see a message similar to:

To have launchd start homebrew/apache/httpd24 now and restart at startup: sudo brew services start homebrew/apache/httpd24

Let's run the command:

sudo brew services start homebrew/apache/httpd24

Verify everything is running by loading, http://localhost after which we should see the It Works! message

Step 2: PHP-FPM

1.- Let's continue by installing PHP

brew install -v homebrew/php/php70

2.- Start PHP-FPM, the beauty about homebrew/php is that it installs PHP and FPM, so we only need to run the following:

brew services start homebrew/php/php70

For now let's use the default configuration, if we need to change it the configuration is located at /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/

Step 3: Configuration

1.- Open the Apache configuration:

vim /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf

2.- Uncomment the following lines:

LoadModule proxy_module libexec/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module libexec/mod_proxy_fcgi.so

3.- Setup the proxy config for PHP-FPM:

<IfModule proxy_module>
  ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/usr/local/var/www/htdocs/$1
</IfModule>

Typically I would setup this per vhost to point it to the right directory

4.- Finally let's create a phpinfo() page inside /usr/local/var/www/htdocs/ and confirm everything is working by loading the test page:

There are a few more tweaks and turns, but this should get you up and running directly on OSX.

For a more detailed walkthrough of the configuration we use check the configuration(vhost, php pools, etc) on this vagrant box:

https://github.com/DemacMedia/vagrant-lamp/tree/master/files

1. Follow one of the many Mac + Nginx + PHP-FPM + Mysql setup tutorials like this (be sure to use brew services):
   • https://gist.github.com/dtomasi/ab76d14338db82ec24a1fc137caff75b
   • https://gist.github.com/johnantoni/07df65898456ace4307d5bb6cbdc7f51
2. brew install php70-intl php70-mcrypt

3. In /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf inside http define new upstream

   upstream fastcgi_backend {
     server  127.0.0.1:9070;
   }
   

   9000 is the default port, but I'd recommend to add PHP version number as a last two digits, to be able to use few versions of PHP at the same time i.e. for M1. You can modify FPM port in file /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/php-fpm.d/www.conf - listen = 127.0.0.1:9070 and then restart PHP using brew services restart php70.

4. Copy nginx.conf.sample form M2 repository and save as /usr/local/etc/nginx/magento2.conf. This config will use fastcgi_backend defined in the previous step.

5. Setup vhosts and domains

   server {
     listen 80;
     server_name magento2.dev;
     set $MAGE_ROOT /path/to/m2/project;
     set $MAGE_MODE developer;
     include /usr/local/etc/nginx/magento2.conf;
   }
   

6. Restart Nginx

Step 1 : Stop the existing apache service and install Apache thru Brew.

$ sudo apachectl stop
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist 2>/dev/null
$ brew install httpd24 --with-privileged-ports --with-http2

This step takes a little while as it builds Apache from source. Upon completion you should see a message like:

/usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.23_2: 212 files, 4.4M, built in 1 minute 60 seconds

Step 2 : This is important because you will need that path in the next step.

$ sudo cp -v /usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.23_2/homebrew.mxcl.httpd24.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons

$ sudo chown -v root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.httpd24.plist

$ sudo chmod -v 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.httpd24.plist

$ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.httpd24.plist

Now we have installed Homebrew's Apache, and configured it to auto-start with a privileged account.

Server can be reached http://localhost

Step 3 : Apache Configuration

Configuration file Path

/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf

if you want to change the configuration , you should make it here

Note : we should now enable mod_rewrite which is commented out by default.

LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/mod_rewrite.so

For Magento installation mod_rewrite should be enable in this configuration file.

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
#   AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All

Step 4 : PHP installation

we can get a full list of available options to include by typing

$ brew install php71 --with-httpd24

We can choose which version we are going to use.

For configure the tweak configuration setting of PHP for our needs for example , memory_limit, date.timezone, display_errors...etc/apache2/2

/usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini

Step 5 : Apache PHP Setup

Now we have successfully installed your PHP versions, but we need to tell Apache to use them . we need to edit apache configuration file

/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf

by modifying the php path.

LoadModule php7_module    /usr/local/opt/php71/libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

Handle the php requests in apache by the following configuration needs to be modified

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

Save the configuration file and restart the apache.

$ sudo apachectl -k restart

Step 6 : Validating PHP

create an php file info.php in document root directory

Content of info.php is

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Step 6 : Check the dependency extension of PHP for Magento in php.ini file.

Required PHP extensions for Magento2:

bc-math 
curl
gd, ImageMagick 6.3.7 (or later) or both
intl
mbstring
mcrypt
mhash
openssl
PDO/MySQL
SimpleXML
soap
xml
xsl
zip
PHP 7 only:
json
iconv

Then you can proceed with Magento installation.