Hi
It seems that many people go through the same that I experienced - problems with getting PHP 4.2.1 working with Apache 2.039. Some people responded how to get it to work. I tried different options recommended by others and when I got it to work I thought I may put it all together in one posting. I learned from postings on this forum as well as from "User Contributed Notes" on http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php - thanks Fanny ZHU for the link.
I have it working on Windows 2000 and have used the binaries only.
1. Install Apache 2.039
2. Get PHP from http://snaps.php.net/win32
(thanks kristijan for the link) - I used the php4_win32_latest.zip
3. Unzip the PHP
4. Get php4apache2.dll from http://insodus.servehttp.com/Exosoft/_downloads/php4apache2.dll (thanks insodus@hotmail.com) and replace the original php4apache2.dll in ..\php\sapi
5. Follow install.txt - create php.ini in %SYSTEMROOT% directory and make the edits
6. Follow install.txt and edit httpd.config but add only the two lines:
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
DO NOT add:
AddModule mod_php4.c
When I added the line Apache didn't start. It displayed error:
Invalid command 'AddModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
And there may be a reason - the compile.log on http://snaps.php.net/win32 doesn't list mod_php4.c in the list of modules in php4apache2.dll (it is listed in php4apache.dll only)
- At this point you should be able to use php files stored in Apache DocumentRoot directory. For some reason I could not use files from subdirectories of the DocumentRoot. If you set up virtual directories, you can use php files stored there and in subdirectories
I hope my typing will save someone some time
Witold
