How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.4.16 and MariaDB 5.5.31 on Windows 7

As a followup to my post on How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5.21 on Windows 7, I decided to install the latest Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.4.16 and MariaDB 5.5 with PhPMyAdmin. The difference is using MariaDB and PHP 5.4.16.

Apache 2.4 Install

First download Apache 2.4.4 from http://www.apachelounge.com/download/ (httpd-2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip) Apache 2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip.

Extract the zip and copy it to the root of C:\. This will be C:\Apache24 when it is all done.

PHP 5.4.16

Download PHP 5.4.16 VC9 x86 Thread Safe from http://windows.php.net/download/ . Extract and rename folder to php and move to C:\.

PHP 5.4.10 and newer configuration

Edit Apache’s config file, c:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

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

While we are at it we can add index.php to Apache’s list just incase we want to have a starting page as php.

Find Directory index and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Next we need to input a value for ServerName variable. You will have to un-comment it. Save the changes to the config file. Next move to the Register Apache Service step.

Register Apache Service

Now let’s register Apache as a service. Open a command prompt and type.

c:\apache24\bin\httpd -k install

Note: If you receive and error that MSVRC100.dll is missing you will need to download and install Visual C++ 2010 x86 Runtime. You can retrieve that from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5555.

If do not want Apache starting automatically at start-up/reboot:

GUI Way

START | RUN
Type in services.msc, hit Enter or click OK
Locate Apache2 service and double-click (or right-click for Properties)
Find the caption Startup type: (in the middle of the dialog box), use the pull-down and select Manual
Click OK

Command line

C:\> sc config Apache2.4 start= demand

Add

c:\Apache24; c:\Apache24\bin

to PATH in Environment variables. PATH ENVIRONMENT (System Properties | Advanced | Environment Variables | System variables | Path).
Example:
;c:\php;c:\apache24;c:\apache24\bin;

Now lets check Apache settings by issuing the command, c:\Apache24\bin\httpd -S

PHP Edits

Now we have to do a few edits to the php.ini file to tell it to load support for mysql and the location for the extensions. Since there is not a already set php.ini file we need to rename one of the two examples to php.ini.

Rename c:\php\php.ini-development to php.ini

Now let’s edit php.ini
Uncomment extension directory.

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = "./"
; On windows:
extension_dir = "ext"

Uncomment mysql modules
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll

Save the changes and open a command prompt. Check to make sure it shows loaded modules.

C:\> php -m

So now we have Apache running and configured to use php. Lets create a file called info.php, save it and see if Apache parses the info correctly to display the results.

Open Notepad or your favorite Windows editor and type and save the following.

 <?php
phpinfo();
?>

Open your browser and type, localhost/info.php for the location and you should receive alot of information about PHP.

MariaDB
Download and install mariadb-5.5.31-winx64.msi. Change installation directory to C:\MariaDB 5.5 instead of Program files as there could be permissions issues. Once the installation is completed you can let the configuration wizard run and setup the database server. The defaults will work just fine, but remember what you set the password to for root.

PHPMyAdmin
PHPMyAdmin is a very nice tool to use for administering your MySQL installation.
Download and install phpmyadmin-3.5.8.1-english.zip.
Extract the file and move to c:\apache24\htdocs. Rename directory to phpmyadmin.
Create a config directory under phpmyadmin. Open a browser and type localhost/phpmyadmin/setup/index.php to complete the installation.

At this point you should have a working Apache / PHP / MariaDB installation running and ready for you to start developing !!!

How to install Apache 2.4 PostgreSQL 9.2.4 and PHP 5.4 on Windows 7

In following along with previous posts and installing Apache stack on Windows systems I thought I might cover installing Apache 2.4, PostgreSQL 9 and PHP 5.4 on a Windows system. In this case a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit installation.

Apache 2.4 Install

First download Apache 2.4.4 from http://www.apachelounge.com/download/ (httpd-2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip) Apache 2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip.

Extract the zip and copy it to the root of C:\. This will be C:\Apache24 when it is all done.

PHP 5.4.16

Download PHP 5.4.16 VC9 x86 Thread Safe from http://windows.php.net/download/ . Extract and rename folder to php and move to C:\.

PHP 5.4.10 and newer configuration

Edit Apache’s config file, c:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

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

While we are at it we can add index.php to Apache’s list just incase we want to have a starting page as php.

Find Directory index and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Next we need to input a value for ServerName variable. You will have to un-comment it. Save the changes to the config file. Next move to the Register Apache Service step.

Register Apache Service

Now let’s register Apache as a service. Open a command prompt and type.

c:\apache24\bin\httpd.exe -k install

If do not want Apache starting automatically at start-up/reboot:

GUI Way

START | RUN
Type in services.msc, hit Enter or click OK
Locate Apache2 service and double-click (or right-click for Properties)
Find the caption Startup type: (in the middle of the dialog box), use the pull-down and select Manual
Click OK

Command line

C:\> sc config Apache2.4 start= demand

Add

c:\Apache24; c:\Apache24\bin

to PATH in Environment variables. PATH ENVIRONMENT (System Properties | Advanced | Environment Variables | System variables | Path).
Example:
;c:\php;c:\apache24;c:\apache24\bin;

Now lets check Apache settings by issuing the command, c:\Apache24\bin\httpd -S

PHP Edits

Now we have to do a few edits to the php.ini file to tell it to load support for PostgreSQL and the location for the extensions. Since there is not a already set php.ini file we need to rename one of the two examples to php.ini.

Rename c:\php\php.ini-development to php.ini

Now let’s edit php.ini
Uncomment extension directory, if it doesn’t exist you will need to create it.

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = "./"
; On windows:
extension_dir = "ext"

Uncomment PostgreSQL modules
extension=php_pgsql.dll

Save the changes and open a command prompt. Check to make sure it shows loaded modules.

C:\> php -m

So now we have Apache running and configured to use php. Lets create a file called info.php, save it and see if Apache parses the info correctly to display the results.

Open Notepad or your favorite Windows editor and type and save the following.

 <?php
phpinfo();
?>

Open your browser and type, localhost/info.php for the location and you should receive alot of information about PHP.

PostgreSQL

Download PostgreSQL 9.2.4 x86-64from EnterpriseDB site http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#windows. Select x86-32 if you are running a 32 bit version of Windows.

Start the installation of PostgreSQL. The installation will prompt for a location. Change the location to C:\PostgreSQL\9.2 and click next.

The next prompt will be for the data directory. It will inherit what you set before which is good, click next.

Set the root password for the database. Make sure to take note of the password. Click Next.

Click next to accept the default port of 5432

Next you will be prompted for the default locale. Click next to accept it.

Click next to start the installation.

Once the installation is completed you will be asked if you want to allow Stack Builder to download and install tools, this is your choice. Click Finish when completed.

At this point PostgreSQL will start and you can verify by opening pgAdmin II and connect to it.

Now you have a running system with PostgreSQL as your database, Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.4 on a Windows 7 system.

How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5.21 on Windows 7

Recently decided to install a working Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.4.9 and MySQL 5.5 running locally on my Windows 7 laptop for web design, not using XAMPP or WAMP installation methods. Which are great but this round I wanted to match my Linux server.

Apache 2.4 Install

First download Apache 2.4 from http://www.apachelounge.com/download/ (httpd-2.4.1-win32.zip) Apache 2.4.1
with IPv6 apr-1.4.6 apr-util-1.4.1 apr-iconv-1.2.1 pcre-8.21 lua-5.1 libxml2-2.7.8 openssl-1.0.0g zlib-1.2.6. This release is supported by the PHP 5.4 install from windows.php.net for Apache 2.4.

Extract the zip and copy it to the root of C:\. This will be C:\Apache24 when it is all done.

Update 01-17-2013: The version of the php5apache2_4.dll must match the version of PHP you are installing. The link that was reference before has been changed and moved to http://www.apachelounge.com/download/additional/ for versions 5.4.9 and earlier. As of PHP 5.4.10 the module is now included in the Windows build.

PHP 5.4.9 and Earlier

Download PHP 5.4.9 VC9 x86 Thread Safe from http://windows.php.net/download/releases/archives/php-5.4.9-Win32-VC9-x86.zip . Extract and rename folder to php and move to C:\
Also, download php5apache2_4.dll-php-5.4-win32.zip (http://www.apachelounge.com/download/win32/modules-2.4/php5apache2_4.dll-php-5.4-win32.zip)
Runs with PHP 5.4 Thread Safe (TS), and only with Apache 2.4 Win32 VC9 or VC10.

PHP 5.4.10 and higher

Download PHP 5.4 VC9 x86 Thread Safe from http://windows.php.net/download/ . Extract and rename folder to php and move to C:\.

Update 01-17-2013: This next edit seems to cause issues with php5apache2_4.dll not found errors, so I have added two options for PHP 5.4.9 and earlier and PHP 5.4.10 and above. I want to thank all those who have brought this to my attention and I hope this helps out. Also, due to the addition of the php5apache2_4.dll being included in PHP 5.4.10 and above builds you no longer need to download the module separately.

PHP 5.4.9 and earlier Option 1

Extract php5apache2_4.dll-php-5.4-win32.zip and copy php5apache2_4.dll to the c:\php\ directory. This is needed to allow Apache to use PHP. Edit Apache’s config file, c:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

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

While we are at it we can add index.php to Apache’s list just incase we want to have a starting page as php.

Find Directory index and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Next we need to input a value for ServerName variable. You will have to un-comment it. Save the changes to the config file. Next move to the Register Apache Service step.

PHP 5.4.9 and earlier Option 2

Extract php5apache2_4.dll-php-5.4-win32.zip and copy php5apache2_4.dll to the c:\php\ext directory. This is needed to allow Apache to use PHP. Edit Apache’s config file, c:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/ext/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

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

While we are at it we can add index.php to Apache’s list just incase we want to have a starting page as php.

Find Directory index and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Next we need to input a value for ServerName variable. You will have to un-comment it. Save the changes to the config file. Next move to the Register Apache Service step.

PHP 5.4.10 and newer

Edit Apache’s config file, c:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file.

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

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

While we are at it we can add index.php to Apache’s list just incase we want to have a starting page as php.

Find Directory index and add index.php

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Next we need to input a value for ServerName variable. You will have to un-comment it. Save the changes to the config file. Next move to the Register Apache Service step.

Register Apache Service

Now let’s register Apache as a service. Open a command prompt and type.

c:\apache24\bin\httpd -k install

If do not want Apache starting automatically at start-up/reboot:

GUI Way

START | RUN
Type in services.msc, hit Enter or click OK
Locate Apache2 service and double-click (or right-click for Properties)
Find the caption Startup type: (in the middle of the dialog box), use the pull-down and select Manual
Click OK

Command line

C:\> sc config Apache2.4 start= demand

Add

c:\Apache24; c:\Apache24\bin

to PATH in Environment variables. PATH ENVIRONMENT (System Properties | Advanced | Environment Variables | System variables | Path).
Example:
;c:\php;c:\apache24;c:\apache24\bin;

Now lets check Apache settings by issuing the command, c:\Apache24\bin\httpd -S

PHP Edits

Rename c:\php\php.ini-development to php.ini

Now let’s edit php.ini
Uncomment extension directory.

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = "./"
; On windows:
extension_dir = "ext"

Uncomment mysql modules
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll

Save the changes and open a command prompt. Check to make sure it shows loaded modules.

C:\> php -m

So now we have Apache running and configured to use php. Lets create a file called info.php, save it and see if Apache parses the info correctly to display the results.

Open Notepad or your favorite Windows editor and type and save the following.

 <?php
phpinfo();
?>

Open your browser and type, localhost/info.php for the location and you should receive alot of information about PHP.

MySQL
Download and install mysql-5.5.21-win64.msi. Change installation directory to C:\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5 instead of Program files as there could be permissions issues. Once the installation is completed you can let the configuration wizard run and setup the database server. The defaults will work just fine, but remember what you set the password to for root.

PHPMyAdmin
PHPMyAdmin is a very nice tool to use for administering your MySQL installation.
Download and install phpmyadmin-3.4.10.1-english.zip.
Extract the file and move to c:\apache24\htdocs. Rename directory to phpmyadmin.
Create a config directory under phpmyadmin. Open a browser and type localhost/phpmyadmin/setup/index.php to complete the installation.

At this point you should have a working Apache / PHP / MySQL installation running and ready for you to start developing !!!

Quick and Easy Apache/PHP/MySQL on Windows

While working on a website for a customer came upon a connectivity issue while working on a laptop getting to the Linux server to test the code. I thought about installing Apache / MySQL / PHP all locally on the laptop and setup a testing server, when I stumbled on XAMPP.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start. The current version is 1.7.4 and contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

Installation is pretty simple. Double click on xampp-win32-1.7.4-VC6-installer.exe to start the process. Click OK to select the Language (English). Click Next on the Welcome screen.

Next is the location of where XAMPP root will be on the system. The default is c:\xampp which will work in most cases, but if you have a separate drive you can change the location. When you are satisfied click next to continue.

This will bring up the XAMPP Options screen. The service section has the option to start Apache, MySQL and Filezilla as a service at startup time. For our purpose I have checked the boxes for Apache and MySQL to start. If you choose not to you can always use the XAMPP control panel to start / stop the services. Once you are satisfied click Install. The installation will take a few minutes to complete, just sit back and relax and click finish when you are prompted.

You now have a running web server with a database to start working with on your system.

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