problems installing PHP 5

on Apache 2.0.39 (Win32)

[sebbothebutcher]

hi everybody!
i've got a problem installing PHP 5! i've had Apache and PHP previously installed (i've used FoxServ), so i thought it would be enough to just add

LoadModule php5_module "C:\FoxServ\php\php5apache2.dll"

to httpd.conf and comment out

LoadModule php4_module "C:\FoxServ\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll"

but when i tried to restart apache, microsoft management console says that it couldn't start apache...
any ideas how to get php 5 working?

[coopster]

There seems to be a difference in your paths now, are you sure that the

php5apache2.dll

file is in that path?

[sebbothebutcher]

yes i am sure... when i installed FoxServ, the php4apache2.dll used to be in the "php/sapi" directory... but now it's just in the "php" directory...

[coopster]

I don't know if this makes any difference whatsoever, but the directory separators are slashes in my

httpd.conf

file, not backslashes.

# For PHP 5 do something like this: 
LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll" 
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

[sebbothebutcher]

nope... doesn't make any difference... the line now looks like this

LoadModule php4_module C:\FoxServ\php\sapi\php4apache2.dll

and it works...
but if i try to change it to PHP 5 it won't start!
could it be possible that it must be done differently when using apache as a service?

[coopster]

I am successfully running Apache as a service with the configuration directive shown earlier. You may want to check the Apache error log to see details of what is going on.

[sebbothebutcher]

well... this is the output of error.log when trying to restart it having changed the httpd.conf file!

[Mon Aug 09 00:37:18 2004] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:18 2004] [notice] Child 480: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:18 2004] [warn] (995)Unknown error: winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:19 2004] [notice] Child 480: Released the start mutex
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:20 2004] [notice] Child 480: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:20 2004] [notice] Child 480: All worker threads have exited.
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:20 2004] [notice] Child 480: Child process is exiting
[Mon Aug 09 00:37:20 2004] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.

can anybody see what's going wrong?
thanks in advance!

[coopster]

Have a look at my second post in Installing PHP5 Under Windows XP and Apache [webmasterworld.com]. It's msg#3, regarding the issues with Apache on Windows XP. You may need to update your

httpd.conf

accordingly.