PHP 5.3 on Windows isn't 5.3?

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 07:44

I've been using xampp for a while because it's easy to set up and configure, and I find myself switching operating systems a lot. (Been on Win7 for a month, and will be going to the 64 bit version soon.)
PHP 5.3 has been out for 11 days now, and xampp hasn't been upgraded, so I decided to do it myself. When I installed it and ran phpinfo(), it told me the version number was 5.2.8

Naturally, I assume something has gone wrong with this pre-configured server.
After downloading Apache 2.2, a several different copies of PHP 5.3 and doing the configurations manually, it's still telling me I have PHP 5.2.8.

After trying both namespace and goto, and failing repeatedly on both, using the thread safe v9 installer and zip, and the v6 thread safe zip, I can safely say I am NOT running PHP 5.3. Is anyone else having this problem?

Am I really going to have to install an application development environment so I can compile my own PHP Binaries for this? (Or, far more likely, abandon the desire for 5.3 and just get 5.2.10)

**sk89q** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:00

You're not looking at the XAMPP installation's web server instead of your own, right?

It's kind of hard to tell you what you did wrong, because there's so many things that could have gone wrong with both XAMPP and your custom installation and several versions of PHP all over.

By the way, you need the VC6 if you use Apache. VC9 if it's IIS.

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:03

The latest php package I used was VC6 - no change, and I've shut xampp down entirely to avoid confusion.

**sk89q** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:05

Hmm. Well, as a matter of finding the problem, have you tried first visiting your custom Apache installation with Apache not running? It should not work (obviously). Then start Apache, and then it should work, but PHP should not be working. Then set up PHP in httpd.conf... then see if PHP works...

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:09

Apache not started: Could not find server.
PHP not loaded: Sends info.php as a file.

It all works as one would expect, aside from the version issue.

**sk89q** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:27

Hmm. Okay. Open the command prompt and execute this:

Run this:

Code:

c:\path\to\php\folder\php.exe -r "namespace test; echo phpversion();"

**crmalibu** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:28

I changed my xampp install to use 5.3 through cgi, instead of an apache module.

I used this for guidance
http://www.thesitewizard.com/php/ins...-windows.shtml

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:36

Okay, THAT reports as 5.3.0.
After looking through my phpinfo(), it does reference my xampp folder in PATH, but it shouldn't be doing that because if I use PATH under my cmd prompt, the xampp directory is nowhere to be found. I'll poke around a little more.

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 08:49

I still can't find any place on my machine where my xampp folder would be put into my path environment variable.

**sk89q** · Jul 11, 2009, 09:26

Are you running your custom Apache installation as a service?

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 09:38

Arg... Trying to. I renamed my xampp folder to stop it from loading that php file, and now apache won't launch. I reinstalled apache after a full removal, and I'm still unable to start it. I'm getting an error saying it can't find php5apache2_2.dll under the apache/bin folder, when it's quite clearly there...

**sk89q** · Jul 11, 2009, 10:29

Well, I'd recommend against running Apache as a service until you get it working.

To install Apache 2.2/PHP, I don't move any files. This is what I do. It's fairly simple.

Download and install Apache.
Download the PHP ZIP distribution and extract it to C:\php
Rename php.ini-* to php.ini and edit it to my tastes.

Put this into httpd.conf:

Code:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "C:/php"

Edit httpd.conf to my tastes.

Done! Takes me about 5-10 minutes.

**oxodesign** · Jul 11, 2009, 10:44

Take a look at this tut on how to install
Apache, PHP and MySQL on Win7

http://webdevcodex.com/tutorial-inst...ndows-7-vista/

**Zarin Denatrose** · Jul 11, 2009, 10:47

Alright, I installed it all as normal yet again after clearing all references to the old server from my registry, then tried and failed to start after adding PHP to the mix. I copied it all to another hard drive, re-registered the service (yet again.), and it worked. I moved it back, reinstalled the service and all is well.

Thank you for all your help!

**logic_earth** · Jul 11, 2009, 10:54

This is why I moved to IIS 7 long ago. It just works.

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