Apache/PHP Installation Help

RobinDoh

I have installed Apache and it worked fine. Then I installed PHP and all was going well. The final step in the setup was to add these 3 lines to the httpd.conf file of Apache:

LoadModule php4_module c:/apache/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
AddModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

But when I add these Apache will no longer start. Taking the 3 lines away fixes the problem but then I don't have PHP. I have tried just keeping each one of the lines but that doesn't help, so I assume the problem is with any/all of the lines.

I am using the latest versions Windows versions which I downloaded yesterday. Apache 2.0.40 and PHP 4.2.2. The O/S is Windows 2000 Pro.

Can anyone help?

piersk

Have you downloaded the latest version of PHP with support for apache 2? If not, get the binaries here.

RobinDoh

The one that I downloaded was:

PHP 4.2.2 zip package [5,275Kb] - 22 July 2002
(CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache, Apache2 (experimental), ISAPI, NSAPI, Servlet and Pi3Web. MySQL support built-in, many extensions included, packaged as zip)

From http://www.php.net/downloads.php, is this not what I want?

piersk

No, you wanna get it from http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip,

RobinDoh

Okay, I'll download that. Thanks. I hope you are right. 😉

RobinDoh

I've downloaded that and installed it as per the install.txt file. I removed the AddModule line as it said that later versions of apache didn't require it and when I had it apache would not start. So now the only change that I've made to httpd.conf relating to php is that I've added these 2 lines:

LoadModule php4_module c:/apache/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Now when I view a php page it just outputs the php source code rather than executes it. I'm assuming this means that Apache hasn't sent the file to be interpreted by the PHP parser and is just outputting it as a normal HTML page. Have I missed out a step in configuring Apache?

😕

piersk

Did you restart apache? Also have you tried re-starting your PC?

RobinDoh

Yes I have restarted Apache. Didn't think of restarting PC, doing it now...

RobinDoh

A reboot didn't help.

piersk

Try:

LoadModule php4_module c:\apache\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll

Notice that the slashes are back rather than forward.

(Oh, and then restart Apache)

RobinDoh

Same problem still 🙁

RobinDoh

Oh wait! It's working now! Woohoo! Thanks 😃