Apache won't start after installing PHP

Question

I have a working installation of Apache 2.2.17 on Windows 7, and I installed PHP 5.3.5 (the VC6, x86, thread-safe version)

I make sure to choose Apache 2.2.x as my web server and chose the path to Apache2.2\conf for the Apache configuration path.

But now, when I try to start Apache, I get this error:

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Error
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The requested operation has failed!
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OK
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Nothing is written to error.log

How can I fix this?

Solution 1

Turns out I needed to put php5apache2_2.dll into my apache install folder and go into httpd.conf and change the "PhpIniDir" variable to be the path to the php.ini file in my PHP install folder.

Solution 2

Actually, there is no need to copy the files. You simply need to provide the correct paths. I did not change any of the defaults when installing, and in my case the edits look like this in the httpd.conf file:

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

Kind of annoying that the installer doesn't do this correctly in the first place given that it has all the required info...

Comments

[Steve Valliere]

Adding a # in front of those lines comments them out and therefor does not load PHP. This will fix the problem but you now have the problem of not having PHP.