How We Resolved the MongoDB PHP Extension Issue on Apple Silicon (M1) with Intel x64 Homebrew, httpd, and PHP
Migrating to Apple Silicon (M1/M2) Macs often exposes subtle architecture mismatches-especially when legacy Homebrew, PHP, and Apache (httpd) installations are still running under Intel x64 emulation (Rosetta 2). Here’s how we resolved the issue of installing the MongoDB PHP extension when everything (Homebrew, httpd, PHP, and MongoDB extension) was running as Intel x64 on an M1 Mac.