Getting Apache 2.2 to work with PHP 5
I decided to install Apache 2.2 and also upgrade my PHP 5 and I thought it would be a straightforward process but in the end it wasn't for reasons I am going to explain below. I am not going to write a whole tutorial on installing Apache and PHP 5 because there are already some excellent tutorials around and the one from this site I found it to be very good.
What I will do though is to highlight the small changes I made to make Apache 2.2 work with PHP 5.
Assuming PHP is installed in the C:/php folder normally you would add the following lines to your Apache httpd.conf file:
LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"
With Apache 2.2 I got an error on the LoadModule line. To resolve that error I had to download the latest stable release of PHP from the PHP Snapshots site. I downloaded the zip file for PHP 5.2 and this comes with the php5apache2_2.dll file.
In the Apache httpd conf file I then made changes to the LoadModule line as follows:
LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"
and this solved the problem. I prefer using the PHPIniDir directive because this means I
just maintain one copy of the php.ini file in C:/php folder in this case and I don't have to
copy another one to C:/Windows for example and this works fine for me.
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Thanks for linking to the PHP Snapshots page. I've been struggling with Apache 2.2 for a few hours now, looking around the net, and this just saved me some more time. Thanks for that.
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If the info helped you and saved you a bit of time Bouken, then that's good to hear because that's the whole point of it.
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Thank you for this blurb...it got PHP working with Apache just like you said. :)
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