Let me tell you how I solved my php / Apache interace issues. I did not modifiy my Apache http.config file beyond adding this at the bottom of the file...
# Include other conf files, any and all..
include conf.d/*.conf
And in that directory I have a file called php.conf.
In that file I have [see below]...
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