PHP - Install (Apache 2)

Test

Linux

Windows

Download the PHP ZIP file, php-5.3.0-Win32-VC6-x86.zip from http://windows.php.net/download/.

Note:

Don’t download the installer…
Make sure you download the VC6 version of the files if using PHP with Apache

Extract the archive. I extracted to:

e:\php\

In the php folder, rename php.ini-production to php.ini.

Configuration

In the php.ini file, set the timezone:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = 'Europe/London'

In Apache httpd.conf, add the following (adjust path if you need to):

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

# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "e:/php"

Note: For Apache 2.2, you will need php5apache2_2.dll rather than php5apache2.dll.

The WordPress Apache notes contain some useful bits and pieces…

Test

Create an Apache directory in httpd.conf:

Alias /interblog "E:/interblog"
<Directory "E:/interblog">
  AllowOverride None
  Options None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Note:

For Apache 2.2 remove the Order and Allow directives.
The Alias directive requires the mod_alias.so module:
```
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
```

Create a test.php file containing the following:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>PHP Test Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>PHP Test Page</h1>
        <?php
             phpinfo();
        ?>
    </body>
</html>

Browse to the file (will be a URL like http://localhost/interblog/test.php):