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Two versions of php in El Capitan. How do I get rid of one or upgrade the other?

In terminal, 

php -v

gives 

PHP 5.3.29 (cli) (built: Sep 28 2015 06:33:13)

(with imagick installed) but, in the browser (using apache)

phpinfo();

gives

PHP Version 5.5.27

(with no imagick installed) How do I resolve this?

I don't want to mess about with php.ini and httpd.conf when I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing!

Solution

  • Solved it. I entered 

    locate libphp5.so

    into terminal to find paths to the php installations. This outputted

    /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
/usr/local/Cellar/php53/5.3.29_4/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

    I then edited the apache configuration file

    sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

    and changed 

    LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

    to

    LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/Cellar/php53/5.3.29_4/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

    NOTE : This line will be different for your local installation, copy the value outputted from the locate command above

    I then restarted apache with:

    sudo apachectl graceful

    Credit to this solution for the command to find the php installations