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has anyone tried installing PHP 5.0.0 on WinXP running Apache?

I tried it and it won't work. PHP 4.x.x worked fine. For PHP 5.0.0, I created just the same directory structure as with PHP 4 (modules, sapi, uploadtemp...), configured the php.ini file like in PHP 4, added the LoadModule and AddType lines to the Apache httpd.conf and copied the same type of files as before to places like C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\system32, etc..

But when I start up my PC, windows XP stops responding, then I get an error message saying "Apache has encountered and error and needs to close." I have to comment ( # ) the LoadModule line for php so that Apache will load, but no PHP

Can anyone help??

There could be some broken links to files from PHP4 or any incompatibilities between both.
Download latest Apache version, too.

Which version of Apache are you using?

I can't be sure, but I think I read somewhere that there are compatibility issues with PHP on Apache 2.

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Originally posted by musicalmidget
I can't be sure, but I think I read somewhere that there are compatibility issues with PHP on Apache 2.

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At http://php.net/install.apache2 there is some information. I've been running the latest versions of PHP4 and Apache2 for a while now and haven't had any problems.

Wow, I had loads of problems.  Absolutely nothing seemed to work, I just got loads of errors when I tried.

* musicalmidget strokes Apache 1.

Hmm...

apache.org says "Apache 2.0.50 is the best available version" so I just downloaded that.

Maybe you tried some dodgy automatic installation... I set everything up manually.

i used easy php....cause im too lazy to set everything up lol
http://www.easyphp.org/ but im runnign that on winxp pro

I was trying PHP5 on version 2.0.50

I had verison 2.0.49 before reformatting my PC. (This version was working with PHP 4.x.x) I did that all manually, like what I did for PHP 5. I'm gonna try PHP4 on apache 2.0.50 and see if that works. (It may be a problem with 2.0.50)