Installing Apache on Windwos XP Pro for PHP

[alfta]

Greetings,

I am running windows IIS server on Windows XP Pro on port 80 and would like to install an Apache server that I can start manually on port 8080 for running PHP on. During the installation I am asked for network name, server name and admin. e-mail address. The e-mail address is a no brainer but I am unsure what to enter for the network name and server name. Anybody have some guidance on how to proceed?

Thanks!

Alfta

[LordShryku]

Just enter "localhost" for both of them. Once you get past the installer, you can edit the httpd.conf file to specify which port to listen on

[alfta]

Many thanks! I have a second question. The httpd.config file is trying to call the following dll:

php4apache2.dll

In my php directory there is no such dll. The only dll in the root php directory is php4ts.dll. Am I missing a dll in my php directory or should I change the config file to call php4ts.dll instead of php4apache2.dll?

Thanks!

[LordShryku]

php4apache2.dll should be in your php/sapi directory.

[alfta]

Many thanks! You have been very helpful. I have another question that I hope you might be able to help me with. I have IIS server running as a service. Do I have to turn off IIS in order to use Apache with localhost? I can get Apache going now but I cannot access it from localhost. I am assuming that is because IIS is directing it to the directory it considers the localhost root, is that correct? I have IIS listening to port 80 and Apache listening to port 8080.

[LordShryku]

Not so sure here. Since you're listening to port 8080 on Apache, you should be able to access it through the URL http://localhost:8080

[alfta]

Still no go. Thanks for the help getting me this far. I shall continue on my quest to get Apache to work on my machine.

[alfta]

I finally got it to work. I could access it using:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/

Now I have a problem with getting PHP to work. I added the line:

LoadModule php4_module "c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll"

in the httpd.conf file for Apache but it will not run php yet. Is there something more I need to do to run php as a module?

[LordShryku]

Did you copy your php4ts.dll and php.ini over to the C:\WINNT directory?

[alfta]

The php.ini is in the windows directory (XP does not haev a winnt directory so I am assuming that winnt is the same as the windows directory? or should it be in the win32app directory?)

PHP does work fine on the IIS server that is running as a service.

The dll file I have not copied. Do I copy it into the windows directory or move it there?

Alfta

[LordShryku]

Just copy it to there. Always good to have a backup in the php directory

[alfta]

Outstanding! That did the trick. Many thanks!!

[LordShryku]

yarr 😃