Configuring Apache 2.0.47 with PHP 4

webshaun

Hi.

I'm having terrible difficulty getting the php module to work correctly inside of apache. It would seem that apache is running fine but when I add the loadmodule for php and all the other information to the apache httpd.conf file and start apache I get the error:

cannot load php4apache2.dll into the server.

The file isn't missing..I've put it in every possible folder to ensure this..I've also got the php4ts.dll file and the regular php4apache.dll in various folders.

I've heard that this may be a bug with apache 2. Does anybody know how I can fix this?

tsinka

Hi,

can you tell me to which folders you copied the php4ts.dll ? Which Windows version do you use ?

Some suggestions about installing php:

1) do not use the msi installer version of php, uninstall php if you used the msi installer package, download the zip package and unzip it to e.g. c:\php (make sure that you don't use a path that contains white spaces)
2) copy php4ts.dll to \windows\system (W98/ME) or \winnt\system32 (NT/2K) or \windows\system32 (XP)
3) copy php.ini-dist to the windows/winnt folder and rename it to php.ini
4) Add the following lines to httpd.conf
LoadModule php4_module c:\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

That should 🙂 do it. Make sure that you use the latest versions of apache and php.

webshaun

I'm sorry I'm very new at this. When I add loadModule line suddenly my error message becomes "could not open document d:/apache2/conf/httpd.conf"...

I hear this may be a glitch in apache 2 (not being entirely compatible with php)..is this true?

What am I doing wrong?

Where exactly must I add the lines for the loadModule anyway? Does it matter where?

ratbaggy

Have a read. The article made me (first time Apaqche user) understand a little better.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/44/index4a.html?tw=programming