Help with Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.2.11

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I was running a "happy" installation of Apache (2.2.11) and PHP (some other version) with no problems on my development machine.

Then, one day, I felt like upgrading to 5.2.11 (PHP) and this broke my install. Now, Apache fails to run, and the Windows "More info" button shows that the erring module is "php4ts" or something similar.

It displays the standard Windows error message:

Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close ...

and in the "More information" section, it says:

Error Signature -- szAppName : httpd.exe szAppVer: 2.2.11.0 szModName : php5ts.dll szModVer 5.2.11.11 offset: 000f331b.

Apart from the stuff required to use PHP, httpd.conf doesn't have anything notable. On commenting the PHP part out, Apache runs, but without PHP (as expected).

manpreet 2 years ago

If you're not very experienced with Apache, PHP, and MySQL, I would highly recommend that you look at XAMPP. It's a pre-packaged, all-in-one, LAMP server for Linux and Windows. It's super easy to setup and if you need to ugprade, if you install the full version, it includes scripts that automatically upgrade the whole package.

manpreet 2 years ago

Why do you have php4ts ? This should be php5ts. It's quite possible that you have a mixture of versions, which is the source of your problem.

Rather than upgrading I would start from scratch: Uninstall all affected software, delete all its directories, then install the vanilla products and see if they run as-is, with no additional modules or anything extra.

Then, once everything works in a standard configuration, I would start building towards my final configuration, but doing one small change at a time.