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Here we take PHP5 as an example to introduce the installation and configuration methods of Apache and PHP5 under Windows.
Once you download the installation program
Apache can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/httpd/binaries/win32/
PHP can be downloaded from http://www.php. net download.
Second installation program
1. Apache program installation is relatively simple. What we downloaded from the website is an installation program under Windows. We can directly double-click to run it, which is convenient for us. Apache has settled down on our computers.
2. What we need to pay attention to here is that when downloading PHP, you must download the zip package instead of the Installer. Unzip the PHP package we downloaded to the root directory of the C drive, and unzip it The resulting folder is renamed php.
Three configurations
1. It is best to ensure that php5ts.dll is available no matter what interface (CGI or SAPI) is used, so this file must be placed in the Windows path. The best location is the system directory of Windows:
c:windowssystem for Windows 9x/ME
c:winntsystem32 for Windows NT/2000 or c:winnt40system32 for Windows NT/2000 server version
c:windowssystem32 for Windows XP
2. The next step is to set a valid PHP configuration file, php.ini. The compressed package includes two ini files, php.ini-dist and php.ini-recommended. It is recommended to use php.ini-recommended because this file optimizes the default settings for performance and security.
Copy the selected ini file to a directory where PHP can find it and rename it to php.ini. PHP searches for php.ini in the Windows directory by default:
3 Copy the selected ini file to %WINDIR% under Windows 9x/ME/XP, usually c:windows.
Under Windows NT/2000, copy the selected ini file to %WINDIR% or %SYSTEMROOT%, usually c:winnt or c:winnt40 corresponding to the server version.
4 Settings for PHP in Apache
There are two ways to make PHP work in Apache under Windows. One is using CGI binaries and the other is using Apache module DLL. Either way, you must first stop the Apache server and then edit httpd.conf to configure Apache and PHP to work together.
If we want to use CGI binaries, then we need to insert the following instructions into Apache's httpd.conf configuration file to set up CGI binaries:
PHP is installed into Apache 2.0 in CGI mode:
ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php