Severe Frustration: Installing PHP w/ Apache

benn600

I've been trying for around 5 hours to get PHP and Apache running. I was using Vista on my server but am upgrading to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise x64.

I was using the standard PHP & Apache distributions so they are x86 based.

But I install Apache and it works fine. I get the "It Works" page. But if I install PHP, with auto configuring Apache, I am not able to view PHP! If I modify the "It Works" page to add:

<?php
HELLO
?>

No error is returned. Correct PHP also doesn't return anything. What's going on?! I I install WAMP I get two errors and nothing works there, either. I have tried installing WAMP on several computers and always get errors.

halojoy

the first thing you should run is this
It will give you information of your Server and PHP configuration.
Call it phpinfo.php

<?php

// call the phpinfo function which will display information
phpinfo(); 

?>

If you want to display something you use function: [man]echo/man
Like this

<?php

echo "Hello,<br>
      welcome to my world!";

?>

benn600

I have no idea what is different but that worked this time! I tried it before!

Thanks! I will keep progressing (MySQL next) and post more if I'm still lost. I went from a perfectly working server to nothing and I'm anxious to get it going again.

benn600

If I use this:

#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL
PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/PHP (x86)/"
LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files (x86)/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll"
#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

It seems to work correctly. But the PHP (x86) is incorrect! I was trying Program Files with and without x86 but mistakenly put it there and it works, even though the directory doesn't exist! Removing the line makes it stop working. This is really confusing.

benn600

Now it appears PHP is working (I had it working at one point in the past) but MySQL isn't working.

I really wonder if PHP or Apache is getting confused with the (x86) stuff. Too bad PHP and Apache don't have their own x64 versions--and it's very strange that they don't!

But now I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in T:\Web Site\quizbowl\mysql.php on line 2

I'm going to duplicate the PHP directory to both x86 and not directories see if it can find it then.

benn600

Something is absolutely not right because when I repaired PHP to add MySQL addons (which were installed already), it broke PHP. If the ini file location is missing or accurate, nothing shows up. If it is inaccurate, phpinfo works. But I still can't get mysql working in either case.

What's going on?!

benn600

Here is some log info. What's going on here? I reformatted and am now using Windows Server 2003 Standard x86 edition, which I thought would solve the problem--but NO!

[Fri Oct 19 22:10:08 2007] [notice] Child 2824: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:08 2007] [notice] Child 2824: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:13 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:13 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'SAM/php_sam.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:15 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:15 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'SAM/php_sam.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:22 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:22 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'SAM/php_sam.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:11:17 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.88] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:11:17 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.88] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'SAM/php_sam.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:14:23 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.88] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:14:23 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.88] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'SAM/php_sam.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in sam_factory on line 1
[Fri Oct 19 22:14:35 2007] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.

bpat1434

[Fri Oct 19 22:10:08 2007] [notice] Child 2824: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:08 2007] [notice] Child 2824: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Fri Oct 19 22:10:13 2007] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] PHP Warning: require_once(SAM/php_sam.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in sam_factory on line 1

The green lines are just saying that Apache is starting up with 250 "threads"... typical, and that it's listening on port 80 (default).

The red line states that a required include (SAM/php_sam.php) wasn't found. So either you're trying to require a PEAR module that isn't available (because you haven't installed it yet) or you didn't specify the relative path for that require.

halojoy

benn600 wrote:
Something is absolutely not right because when I repaired PHP to add MySQL addons (which were installed already), it broke PHP. If the ini file location is missing or accurate, nothing shows up. If it is inaccurate, phpinfo works. But I still can't get mysql working in either case.

What's going on?!

As bpat pointed out you have no such file:
C:\php5\pear\SAM\php_sam.php
and this file is wanted by page:sam_factory
* php manual: CXL. SAM - Simple Asynchronous Messaging

Link: [man]sam[/man]

To see what php.ini file is in use, see phpinfo top section

Loaded Configuration File 	C:\php\php.ini

About MySQL.
In phpinfo() you should see if MySQL is loaded in the extension listing.
You have to Load the module in php.ini
Uncomment all extensions you want to use

;extension=php_ming.dll
;extension=php_msql.dll
;extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
;extension=php_mysqli.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll

Of course you have to have MySQL installed in your Windows first.
Otherwise the module wont work.

PS. I upgraded into my Win XP, from Apache 2.2.4 to Apache 2.2.6 some hours ago
and also to latest Firefox 2.0.0.8 (bugfixes).
Both operations was done without any problems.

🙂

benn600

I actually switched to the x86 Server 2003 OS thinking that may help. It definitely may have but I think the big issue was I was installing everything in the PHP installer and apparently it doesn't include all the dependencies. So I uninstalled everything and then just installed the two MySQL modules (which I need) and I'm fully operational now.

My only problem now is that my RAID array was getting 420 MB/sec on Vista Home Premium and now I'm getting 60 MB/sec. This is about as crazy as it gets! I thought the speed would go up a bit!

bpat1434

If you're trying to install PHP and Apache 2, don't use the "installer" version of it. You're better off with using the zip source package and dealing with it from there. If you read my stickied post at the top (Running PHP 4 & PHP 5 Concurrently) you can follow those instructions just ignoring PHP 4 stuff.

You should be using the OS that works with the processor better. Typically that means if you have an x64 processor, use the x64 version. There might be enhancements in the x64 version that there aren't in the x86 (like longer integers and other such things).....

bradgrafelman

I definitely agree with bpat - don't use the MSI installers, do it yourself.

The problem is that you used an invalid directory for the "PHPIniDir" directory. The best recommendation I would make is to install PHP into a directory that doesn't have spaces (ex. "C:\php\").

bpat1434

The PHPIniDir directive can be a path with spaces in it. The only issue is if it is, you need to put quotes around it 😉 I've had php setup for some time as C:\Program Files (x86)\Webserver\php5 and Apache worked fine with it....