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josefgiven

Okay. Installing Apache 2.2.4 and PHP on my XP machine.

Installed Apache with no problems. Fine, happiness, joy, fantastic. The http://localhost/ command takes me to a page which simply reads

[FONT="Times New Roman"]It works![/FONT]

...and you can't ask for more than that.

Problem comes with installing PHP, which is the latest version - 5.2.1. Self installing version, not the zipped file. I've been working under the assumption that this bells-and-whistles self-installer puts all the various files where they need to go. When asked for Apache's configuration path, I gave it ...\Apache 2.2\conf.

I've made an index.php file in the DocumentRoot path, running the basic, ubiquitous phpinfo(); command. However, now when I run http://localhost/ I get to a HTTP 403 page: "The website declined to show this webpage"

What gives?

EDIT: I've configured Zonealarm to give Apache full access everywhere, in case that makes any difference.

EDIT2: For the record, I installed all the features that come with PHP 5.2.1 during setup. For better or for worse. 😉 What the hell - even in its entirely it's tiny.

Thanks for your time,

Steve

meigwil

Hi Josef,

I installed apache 2.0 and php 5 on Win XP about a year ago.

I used these instructions which worked out great (and they help with mysql).

http://www.tanguay.info/wamp/installPhp5.php5

Good luck,

Mei

josefgiven

Please forgive the double post, but there's only so many re-edits a post can take. (😉)

Tried a different tack. I uninstalled the .msi installed version of PHP and, from your very own Newbies forum FAQ + Bookmarked threads, I tried this:

Downloading and Installing PHP 4.3.4

http://au.php.net/get/php-4.3.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror select the mirror and download into the apache folder. Extract the files into the apache folder. It should create a folder called php4.3.4-Win32 or something similar, change that to PHP.

Find this file in the php folder php.ini-recommended
Rename it so its php.ini

Open the file php.ini and find this
extension_dir

Make it this

extension_dir = "c:\apache\php\extensions" change it to co-inside to where the php extensions folder is.

Once done save this file in your c:\apache\apache2\bin folder.

Find php4ts.dll in your php folder copy and paste it into your c:\windows\system32 if you’re on XP or find your system root %SYSTEMROOT% c:\WINNT is NT/2000 Users

That’s all you need changed.

This was written pre PHP 5.*, so I adapted the information to suit the newer release.

Still no joy. Still the same error message.

EDIT: Just got meigwil's post. Thanks m8, I'll chase that up.