PHP4 with Apache 2 in Windows

jerdo

Why is it everytime Apache puts out a minor revision for Apache2 all PHP4 support stops until a new dll is put out? I could see if there were major changes, but since 2.0.36 all the changes I've seen in the log have been fairly minor and each revision since then has required a new dll to operate. Unfortunately I had to upgrade to this version to get htpasswd to work properly, but it's becoming frustrating that each time they fix a security hole that I have to fish for a dll to make everything work right. At least this time the PHP bug reporting page had a link to the fix on the first page this time instead of it being hidden in an obscure trouble report post. Anyone else having a hard time understanding why these two excellent products seem to have such issues with each other lately?

victordb

Is it possibly the way you have PHP set up in your .conf files.

jerdo

No it's php4apache2.dll, everytime they do a minor revision to Apache2 for windows you have to wait for the new .dll to come out. These are issues known to the Apache group and the PHP people. Easy to fix once the dll is released but just annoying to have to change the dll constantly.

piersk

Ok, aparently (according to another post: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10206693) it is possible to download the .dll file. I have done this, but it still doesnt work. Anyone got any anymore suggestions, cos I REALLY wanna get this to work (cos I was having problems with the previous version of Apache)

adslworld_net

I installed it pretty easily - Apache 2.0.40 with PHP 4.2.3-dev from the latest PHP snapshots on PHP Snapshots

Grab the latest stavle Win32 release and use the dll from that zip package

jerdo

I just used the dll from the snapshot available from php.net. Just click the link on the bug report page and select to open the zip, find the php4apache2.dll and extract it to your php install directory /sapi

burem

hi all, newbie here ...
I installed Apache 2.0.40 with PHP 4.2.3-dev from the latest PHP snapshots too.

And i edit httpd.conf, and add

#
#Load PHP4 Module for Apache 2
#
LoadModule php4_module C:/php4/sapi/php4apache2.dll

When apache2 restarted it yells "The requested operation has failed" 🙁 , but when i put #

#LoadModule php4_module C:/php4/sapi/php4apache2.dll

apache run normally, but can't read php *.ext

thx 😃