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Part 2 assumes you have a working installation of Apache 2.0 please refer to Part 1: Installing Apache if you haven’t already done so.

Requirements

• Apache 2.0.x

1. Download the PHP 4.3.x Windows Binary zip package from http://www.php.net/downloads.php .
2. Run a virus scan and an MD5 checksum to verify the integrity of the download, then unzip to the same root directory as your Apache installation. I have Apache under C:\Apache2, so I have unzipped PHP to C:\php4 .

3. Now edit your php.ini file:

Rename C:\php4\php.ini-dist it to php.ini

Open the php.ini file, locate doc_root and set it to whatever your Apache DocumentRoot is set to. Mine is doc_root = “C:\public_html”

Note: Remember that when adding path values in the Apache configuration files on Windows, all backslashes such as c:\directory\file.ext must be converted to forward slashes, as c:/directory/file.ext. A trailing slash may also be necessary for directories.

Scroll down to extension_dir = “” and set it to the location of the ext directory of your PHP installation extension_dir = “C:\php4\extensions”

Since where using windows we also have to set the session save path to an existing directory so we can use PHP’s sessions functions. I recommend using the Window’s temporary directory session.save_path = “c:/windows/temp” OR for Win2k session.save_path = “c:/WINNT/Temp”

4. Next edit your Apache Conf file (hppd.conf )

For PHP 4 add the following line and copy your php4apache2.dll file from the sapi directory into the php4 root directory:

LoadModule php4_module "c:/php/php4apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

For PHP 5 do something like this:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

And for both configure the path to the php.ini file:

PHPIniDir "C:/php"

5. Now test your installation - first restarting the Apache server - by creating a simple phpinfo file: