PHP5.0 installation configuration in Windows

PHP5 includes some of the following important features:

• Support for the new object model and many new features of the Zend engine.

• Fully rewritten XML support with extended performance around the excellent LIBXML2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).

• New simplexml extension, PHP object easy access operation.

• New built-in SOAP extensions to support the exchange of Web services.

• Added MySQL extensions named mysqli to support MySQL4.1 and later versions of the feature.

• Bind SQLite database.

• Greatly improved flow design, including through-flow operation of the underlying socket

First, click here to download PHP5 for Win32

Then let's get started.

Take PHP for Apache as CGI binary as an example, I like this way. Take the installation directory c:\php as an example;

Remove the original PHP installation directory, unzip Php-5.0.0-win32.zip to c:\php

Rename Php.ini-dist to PHP.ini (same as PHP4)

Modify the Apache httpd.conf file. Delete the original statement with PHP4.

Take the following lines instead:

scriptalias/php/"c:/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php. php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi.exe"

Modify PHP.ini, remove Extension=php_mysql.dll front ";", default is there!

The same is true of PHP for Apache as module. Modify Apache's httpd.conf

LoadModule Php5_module C:/php/php5apache.dll
Addmodule mod_php5.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php. php

But this way you have to copy all the DLL files to the Windows system directory, php.ini and Php.exe to the Windows system directory

Both of these methods have been tried. PHP4 Writing program can run!

For apache2 settings:

1, do not addmodule mod_php5.c

2, LoadModule Php5_module C:/php/php5apache2.dll, is Php5apache2.dll

3, need to be the PHP directory DLL files (the following files do not have to copy: Php5activescript.dll, Php5apache.dll, Php5apache_hooks.dll, Php5apache2.dll, Php5isapi.dll, Php5nsapi.dll) is copied to the above mentioned directory (98, Me is System).

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