Re: [VuFind-General] Installation problem with PHP

[David M. <ma...@ha...>]

At Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:19:20 +0200,
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> 
> Am 17.06.2014 01:13, schrieb Demian Katz:
> > Please feel free to make adjustments to the wiki page if you find a
> > combination that works well for you -- it's always a challenge to
> > find the right balance between overly long and detailed documentation
> > and too-vague-and-thus-not-useful documentation.
> 
> While that is fully in the spirit of OpenSource, it doesn't
> tell one a lot more than "go figure it out for yourself".
> In my dutiful attempts, I got stuck with getting PHP5 to run
> in Apache2. Even after reading the f***ing manuals.
> 
> So, to get more specific: Has anyone succeeded in setting Apache2
> up for work with PHP5, under Win'7/64?
> 
> First try
> ---------
> What I used:
> 
>    Apache2:   httpd-2.4.9-win64-VC11.zip
>    PHP5:      php-5.5.13-Win32-VC11-x86.zip
> 
> Settings in httpd.conf:
> 
>    LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll"
>    AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
> 
>    # configure the path to php.ini
>    PHPIniDir "C:/php/"
> 
> as instructed by
>     http://www.php.net/manual/de/install.windows.apache2.php
> 
> Apache wouldn't start except without these lines, giving
> no more than an opaque, generic error message.
> 

You chose a 64bit Apache build and a 32bit PHP build. I succeeded with

,----
| Apache2:   httpd-2.4.9-win32-VC11.zip
| PHP5:      php-5.5.13-Win32-VC11-x86.zip
`----

And these lines in the httpd.conf

,----
| LoadModule php5_module "d:/home/tmp/apache/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
| 
| <IfModule php5_module>
|     AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
|     PHPIniDir "d:/home/tmp/apache/php/"
| </IfModule>
`----

on a 64bit Windows7. Apache starts up fine and servers a simple PHP
page.

HTH,
 -- David


> 
> Second try
> ----------
> Now using
>    httpd-2.0.65-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi
>    php-5.3.28-Win32-VC9-x86.msi
> 
> then the last step in the php installationf fails with
>    "The installer has encountered an unexpected error
>    installing this package. This may indicate a problem with
>    the package. The error code is 2356"
> followed by
>     "PHP 5.3.28 Setup Wizard ended prematurely ..."
> 
> and no practicable advice as to how to proceed, and no php
> directory created.
> 
> Third try
> ---------
> Then of course, as the .msi refused to work, I resorted to
>    php-5.3.28-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
> and dumped the content into  c:\Apache2\php
> Then, however, the same problem arises as in the first try:
> How to get Apache to find and respect php?
> 
> So, as of now, we are going into production using xampp?
> 
> 
> > There was definitely
> > a time when the Windows installation docs were adequate, but I don't
> > think I've run through them in a couple of years, and I'm sure the
> > available options have exploded since then.
> Does that tell us we are now in a trap of complexity?
> 
> B.Eversberg
> 
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