You need to make sure everything is processed in the correct order. For example, I just used vanilla apache/php from osx 10.6.4: $ cat /etc/apache2/httpd.

You need to make sure everything is processed in the correct order. For example, I just used vanilla apache/php from osx 10.6.4: $ cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf ... LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so ... Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf $ cat /etc/apache2/other/php5.conf <IfModule php5_module> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps <IfModule dir_module> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </IfModule> </IfModule>