How To Install PHP with Apache (Part 2)

Configure PHP

• If you don’t have it on your system, you can download it from here http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/archives/php-5.3.5-Win32-VC6-x86.zip.

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• After download, create a directory named php5 in your C: drive, then extract all its contents to “C:\php5″. It will look like this

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• Now locate php.ini-production in C:\PHP5 then rename it to php.ini

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• Now open php.ini and locate extension_dir directives, uncomment and change the value into

"C:\PHP5\ext"

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• Next you need to find output_buffering, in same php.ini file, and change it to

output_buffering = Off

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• Now locate php_bz2.dll, php_mbstring.dll, php_mysql.dll, and php_mysqli.dll and uncomment them.

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• We are done with the php.ini configuration,

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• Now we have to configure the Apache, for this open the apache configuration folder at location C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf which is by default.

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• Open the file Httpd.conf, from that folder and make following modifications to it.

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• Un-comment expires_module, headers_module, rewrite_module and then add

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php5/php5apache2_2.dll"

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• Add: (with other AddType block)

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

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• Locate
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DirectoryIndex index.html
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

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• Now Save and close that httpd.conf file.

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• Now we need to set enviroment variables. For that….

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• Click on Start> Right click My computer Icon> Select Properties> On pop-up window, go to Advaced Tab> Click on environment variables

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• Locate Path under System Variables and then double click on it then add

;C:\PHP5

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•  Further in Environment Variables, next you need to click New Button and then add

Variable name: PHPRC
Variable value: C:\PHP5

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• Click OK>OK to save the settings.

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•  Now we’re done, let’s begin the test, if all this works or not.

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•  Go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs create a new text file inside that directory named test.php (NOTE: Do check the extension, .txt won’t work) and open it with notepad then add this

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

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• Now save all your work and restart your machine.

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• After reboot, open up your Browser, and type following in the address:

http://localhost/test.php

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• If the following page appears, congratulations!!!