Windows – apache won’t start when configuring php

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I am trying to configure php 5.3.6 with apache 2.2.17. apache runs fine, but will not start once i added entries to httpd.conf for php. the error log has stopped putting entries in when i try to start apache as well.

here are the entries i added, in the appropriate places in http.conf

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files (x86)/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll"
PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files (x86)/PHP"

i have been researching this, but have not been able to find what i am doing wrong. i added double quotes to the paths as there are spaces in them, which resolved a loadmodule error in the log, only now i have no info to go as to what i am missing. any help would be appreciated. i would prefer not to use the all in one installers like wamp server, etc. thanks!

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httpd.conf looks fine. I'm using:

PHPIniDir "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP"

LoadModule php5_module "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php5apache2_2.dll"

The direction of the slashes doesn't seem to make any difference, but as robbrit's suggested, it's worth trying.

However, if you're running 5.3.6, are you using the VC9 binaries from php.net? If so, they explicitly state that they shouldn't be used with apache.org's Apache build. This may be the root of your problem. Your options are to use older VC6 binaries as I'm doing (PHP 5.2) or use a VC9 compiled version of Apache which is available from Apache Lounge.

Update: Working Now

The solution was mostly to Read The Freaking Manual, with the caveat that part of my problem was downloading the wrong package, and "the manual" in this case was install.txt, which is included in the PHP package. So there was some trial and error.

Here's what I did to get this working:

Go to http://windows.php.net/download/ and get the zip file listed under "VC6 x86 Thread Safe."

The rest of the steps were in install.txt. Here's the condensed version:

Extract everything to C:\php
Make sure C:\php is in the Windows system path, and reboot if you added it
- (In Windows XP: right-click My Computer, choose Advanced tab, click "Environment Variables," scroll down to Path in lower box, choose Edit, and append "C:\php;" to the variable value.)
Copy either php.ini-production or php-ini.development to simply c:\php.ini
In httpd.conf, change DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs" to point to the folder where you want to put your html/php files. Do use forward slashes for the path.

Also edit http.conf to add these lines:

 #How to process PHP code
 LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
 #Files that end in .php should be processed as PHP code
 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
 #Where the php.ini file is located
 PHPIniDir "C:\php"

From there, PHP worked for me. You may also want to edit php.ini to tweak settings.

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