OSX Mavericks - Upgraded PHP not loading

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I was wondering if someone could help me.

Im running https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/mavericks">mavericks OSX ... When i type php -v i get the following:

PHP 5.4.24

I needed to upgrade the PHP version, so i followed an https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/online">online guide and updated via the command

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.5

The installation seems to be successful, and installs the new php to

/usr/local/php5/bin/php

But when i run php -v from the command line, i still get the same php version as in the beginning.

If i run /usr/local/php5/bin/php -v i get the correct version im looking for, which is

PHP 5.5.13

Also, when i run which php i get

/usr/bin/php

How do i https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/change">change it so that when i type php -v it shows the updated version?

One more https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/thing">thing .. Im using the zsh shell.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

manpreet 2 years ago

Unix shells look for an environment variable called PATH to tell them a prioritized list of directory paths in which to look for commands (executable files). Your PATH variable needs to have /usr/local/php5/bin before /usr/bin if you want it to find your new custom local version of PHP instead of the default system version.

To do this on the fly, enter this command:

PATH="/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH"

To make this change stick for your account, add that command to the appropriate startup script for zsh, such as .zshenv, .zshrc, or .zshprofile.

To make this change stick for all shells for all accounts on your system, add /usr/local/php5/bin to the top of /etc/paths.