Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP
Guide: Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP
This is a quick guide I wrote to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine. Let me know if this helps you out! Feedback is appreciated. This is my first published guide. I made it for my own reference. Why not share? Did you find this guide useful? I appreciate feedback.
Update (10/2/2005): I just released a major update to the Install & Configure Apache, PHP, JSP, & MySQL guide. I’ve included all the latest versions of the various components.
Update (12/27/2005): Major updates all around! I’ve updated Tomcat with the help of Kevin Saunders. It now uses mod_jk-apache-2.0.55.so since mod_jk2 has been depreciated. I’ve also updated PHP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin to the latest versions. WordPress 2.0 was just released so I’ve updated that as well. It finally works with MySQL 5!
I’m new to Ruby on Rails so I’m not sure how correct my installation instructions are, but I’ve included them anyway. Hopefully someone will find them useful. Let me know.
March 19th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Thank you very much for your help,
I was looking for a way to do all the things you mentioned on your site (which before I had many failures), but because of your help I’m up and running! Thanks again, Stephen
March 20th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
the setup works ok. thanks
where do I have to put my website?
( must it placed in the C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\mysite. ) ?????
thanks Robert
March 21st, 2005 at 11:07 pm
The default location is C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\, but you can change that. Just go into the httpd.conf file.
March 24th, 2005 at 12:07 am
Hello sir,
I am working with MYSQL and i want to configure it with PhpMyAdmin i have install Apache na Mysql, and i tried with your document, but it is not working, so please tell me, how could it happend.
March 27th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Dear Sir,
I have installed Apache n PHP. I tried with ur document, its not working.
pls help me.
samiruzzaman
March 27th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
oh i forget to give my email address.
samiruzzaman
March 29th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Hi,
I installed and configured the Apache2, MySql 4.1, and PHP 5.0 as suggested. However, when I ran the phpinfo(), I didn’t see the “mysql & mysqli”. Which step did I mess up?
When I tried to create some tables, I got the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to underfined function mysql_connect()
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Yick Chan
March 30th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
excellent! ABSOLUTELY 1st rate. An excellent fully documented procedure. spot on. - only one little niggle - i’m doing the same set of installs but on LINUX. still you’ve still set out the procedure and steps with excellent clarity. i’ll do my best to mimic your thoroughness with my own install. Well Done.
April 2nd, 2005 at 10:48 pm
Hi ! Thanks lot for your instruction , I would like to ask how do I configure both popular AppServ2.5.3 and j2sdk1.4.2_07 with Tomcat5.5.7 ?
the reason why I wanna do is I suppose Appserv setup OK with Apache+php+MySQL , only one thing left is JSP. but after I installed Appserv , there is nothing come out(Apache disappear !!) but MySQL …
That will be nice to here anyone give advice !!! ………… ^^
April 4th, 2005 at 4:24 am
i got the same problem as Yick Chan how come is doesnt recognise the extension?php info doesnt show there.! tell us what we could hve gone wrong. and also when i installed the mysql when excuting the serive i got an error about the security it says wrong pass word for the security.im sure i deleted all the instance.! what could have gone wrong i follow ur steps..
April 5th, 2005 at 7:06 am
no worries i got it working now. this tutorial is really effective. but just one little thing?is there a way that u can service JSP file as well putting the file in htdocs as well? i can only process JSP file from jsp-examples thnx.good job
April 7th, 2005 at 12:54 am
same problem w/ nani,
i need to process .jsp files under my document root/virtual hosts i created under apache 2 (out of the /jsp-examples), so how to configure it to make it works?
thanks,
April 8th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
A very, very good “first publication”! Much better than most.
I have been tasked with creating a similar document and would like to know, in detail, how you created your Apache/MySQL/PHP guide? Did you just use a word processor? Which software packages?
Also, everything worked to perfection except the phpMyAdmin package. I keep getting an “Access denied” - Wrong username/password error message.
Under the phpMyAdmin section you say enter “root” as the user and password is whatever you entered before; but I never entered a password while installing phpMyAdmin. Do you mean the password entered under step #2 for MySQL?
If you have the time I would really appreciate a response.
April 8th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
Wow, I need to catch up on comments.
To answer Garry real quick: I originally used Word. It was easy enough to paste screenshots into, etc. Unfortunately, it’s not very “web-friendly” so I exported to HTML, and used Dreamweaver to fix up some of Word’s terrible HTML. If I find some free time, I would like to make the page a Wiki so any user can edit it.
Your assumption about the phpMyAdmin password is correct. I’ll update the guide to make that more clear.
April 11th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
There are two insightful articles involving Tomcat:
Apache2 + Tomcat 5 + mod_jk2 Configuration
Accessing Tomcat on Port 80
April 14th, 2005 at 12:02 pm
Very helpful. Very much appreciate it. One correction (I think), is under JSP Step 14.
ORIGINAL
Final Test: Open http://localhost/jsp-examples/ in a browser, you should see something like the following:
UPDATE (or what I had to do is add port 8080)
Final Test: Open http://localhost:8080/jsp-examples/ in a browser, you should see something like the following:
April 30th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Thanks for your help!
It is simply EXCELLENT! Congratulations.
Thanks,
Lautaro
May 10th, 2005 at 3:30 am
Hi,
Thanks really useful article.
Came across a few problems, which I sorted, and which you may wish to add to your article.
Performed the update using PHP 5.0.4, MySQL etc. Apache 2.0
Installed under windows XP, SP2,
Everyything worked except MySQL libraries would not load. Kept getting the error.
“PHP Startup Unable To Load dynamic Lubrary php_mysql.dll”
and
“PHP Startup Unable To Load dynamic Lubrary php_mysqli.dll”
Eventually tracked this down to the fact that the libmysql.dll. For some reason even though the Path had been updated to include C:\PHP, this file was causing the problem. Copied it over to Windows\System32 and everyting just worked fine.
Cheers
Onkar Jagpal
May 15th, 2005 at 10:18 am
I am italian, I d’ont speak well english:-((. You have make excellent work with
this issue!!!
Hi. :-)))
May 16th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
An EXCELLENT article - you saved me days of work - many thanks
I have a question that’s only partly related to the article (not a problem w/steps etc, more likely related to my OS/config)
Everything installed correctly, as per instructions, and Apache/PHP/mySQL
all work well (and have for several weeks). However, (on Win2K) I’m unable to start the Jakarta Tomcat service at all. I have uninstalled/re-installed/
tried newer and older versions from apache.org, but no luck.
Anyone else have a similar problem? (and hopefully a fix?)
Thanks
Wyzyrd
May 23rd, 2005 at 6:47 am
Hi,
I managed to install Apache2 with php5. After a few initial hiccups, it’s working well.
Thanks
Faizal
May 23rd, 2005 at 5:19 pm
Your setup advice was very valuable and presented in a very easy to use fromat.
Thank You
Dave
May 24th, 2005 at 3:13 am
An excellent article!
Everything worked to perfection except the phpMyAdmin package. when I ran the phpinfo(), I didn’t see the “mysql & mysqliâ€Â. Which step did I mess up? Also, when I try http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ I did not get prompt for password. I got the following error message:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpmyadmin\phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-pl3\config.inc.php:833) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpmyadmin\phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-pl3\libraries\header_http.inc.php on line 15
If you have the time I would really appreciate a response.
May 24th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Brilliant - thank you.
May 28th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Great guide!
Do note that in the newest version of PHP - 5.0.4 - dosen’t use (or seem to need) php_mysqli.dll for functioning. I didn’t install Tomcat, JSP, or ODBC - so if it’s needed for those, ignore the previous. Also, the MySQL people have changed their Win32 distribution packages, and now recommend using the ‘Essentials’ pack, as opposed to the full one (it’s half the size).
June 3rd, 2005 at 3:15 am
An absolutely AWESOME tutorial - wish I had wandered off the beaten paths of apache.org, php.net, & the mySQL site four hours ago. I got fed up & that’s when I found your site.
I’m nearly done, but I can’t for the life of me get to my MySQL directory through my command prompt because of the space b/w Program & Files. I need to go to c:\Program Files\MySQL\… and I’m experiencing a lapse in my brain waves. Please email me ASAP if you have an answer - the snapshot of this procedure shows it’s possible, but I keep getting an “invalid directory” error.
June 7th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Great tutorial!
Thanks for your help,
Goran
June 12th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Guys That a great site- great job done thanks…
June 13th, 2005 at 10:18 pm
Hi
after configured httpd.conf
cannot restart or start apache2 service, error in event viewer
>>>LoadModule takes two arguments, a module name and the name of share object file to load it from.
please help
Thnaks
June 21st, 2005 at 4:31 am
Hi,
I installed and configured the Apache2, MySql 4.1, and PHP 5.0 as
suggested. However, when I ran the phpinfo(), I didn’t see the “mysql & mysqliâ€Â. Which step did I mess up?
When I tried to create some tables, I got the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to underfined function mysql_connect()
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
May
June 21st, 2005 at 6:58 pm
This is exactly what I was looking for.
I am a Java programmer (developing on Eclipse 3.0) and am meant to add some
Java/JSP/Servlet based components to a PHP based application.
I know mightly little about PHP but, searching the net, I found out it is
possible to
link these 2 programming modules without creating more pain than gain, which
makes me
very happy.
So, your ‘Guide’ is going to be instrumental to get going, thanks a lot.
Jan Abt
P.S.: If you have any recomendations on a specific eclipse plugin for PHP, let
me know.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Great Guide.
Had the same issue as Loren, but realised I had missed a setup step 8
“Add the following to the “Load Modules” section of your Apache http.conf file
LoadModule jk2_module modules/mod_jk2.so”
Also had issues with the way XP allows you to key in a double-quote “. If you type really quickly and a sentence ends in a “then you get Alt-F S to save, it doesn’t recognise the final quote in notepad. Must be a config setting!
Thanks for the guide folks. Now I just have to figure out how to talk to mysql or Oracle using jsp!
Cheers,
Dave
June 30th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Thanks for an excellent guide. Short and to the point. Had no problems getting it all configured and works a treat now.
Thanks again,
John
June 30th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Your guide is excellent and concise. I am having problems similar to others posted above, namely not seeing “mysql” or “mysqli” in the phpInfo and getting the following message from phpMyAdmin:
“cannot load mysqli extension;
please check PHP configuration”
(which was ‘mysql extension’ before I followed your suggestions.
When I run a simple mysql_connect() program I get,
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() …”
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Steven
July 1st, 2005 at 11:25 am
wow man thanks so much for that. Possibly the most detailed guide i saw and quick and so easy. the number of times i read useless guides that dont tell you how to configure anything. Thanks alot man
July 2nd, 2005 at 6:47 am
Dammit! I should have looked here first! I just spent three hours getting that dll problem sorted by google searching and one failed download!!
Cheers for the article. Great stuff! Just what I need as the webdesign course I’m studying currently doesn’t teach PHP.
Thanks for your help. Check out my website to learn how to make a home studio for $1000!
http://www.studiojunkies.com
July 3rd, 2005 at 2:23 pm
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. My PHP is running perfectly and my Local host is running fine. How can other people view my site using my Localhost. Do I have to configure my IP with PHP or something?
Thanks
July 13th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
Your site is very very….. very great.
My suggestion is that can you add SSL section into the tutorial too.
It will great!
July 15th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Your guide is great!!! Way way way more better than reading those install.txt — which seems to be a huge puzzle for new users.
Thanks!!!
July 15th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
thank you very much for your guide.It’s really useful.I followed the instruction in both your guide and the install file in PHP,Excellent!
Oh god,I got stuck in configuration whole week and now everything’s done.You guide is very effective basically but the others should change the suitable commands so they will work in their computer like me,I had to change the position of dll extensions to system folder(libmysql.dll,php_mysql.dll).
I use PHP 5.0.4,Apache 2.0.52 and MySQL 4.1.12a in WinXP Home SP2
this is such a good tutorial!
July 15th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Great job. Concise and easy to understand and follow. Thanks.
July 18th, 2005 at 2:06 am
Great walk through! Thanks! I had the same glitch as Onkar Jagpal: even though C:\php is added to Path, apache wouldn’t load php_mysql.dll or php_mysqli.dll. Moving libmysql.dll to C:\Windows\system32 fixed the problem.
July 19th, 2005 at 7:33 am
Thanks for that. All is very easy with your guide in hands:)
July 20th, 2005 at 5:47 pm
Wow. That guide made setting up WAMP a walk in the park. Thanks for that guide! I’m a novice programmer, as in, this was my first attempt to establish a server of any kind, your guide made it easy.
July 21st, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Phenominal! This is why Open Source works. Although it would be nice to see Apache deliver an install with Tomcat included just as Oracle does.
July 22nd, 2005 at 2:33 am
Thanks It’s good for me who is new to apache, mysql and php
world. I know what to expect when doing my new installations.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
I’m a newbie and I’m building a web server using apache,mysql,php etc.. and i recieved these two errows.
The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using multibyte charset. Without mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.
Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole.
July 28th, 2005 at 5:15 am
Your issue about configuring PHP 5 will work for PHP 5 script independently but this configuration cannot work when I want to connect PHP 5 with MySQL 4.1.13
Please give me solution to connecting PHP 5 to MySQL 4.1.13
Thank you
July 28th, 2005 at 9:43 am
Thanks very much, you have saved me hours! I was forced into using Java by a need to communicate with HSBC bank Java API. I’m about to start a new project, why shouldn’t I switch to doing everything in Java? Or to put it another way, what can PHP do that Java cannot? Your comments would be very much appreciated.
July 28th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Hi,
First you made a good job with this tutorial.
If it’s possible please make an add to your tutorial.
After you make an install by your guide you get a red message in phpmyadmin:
“The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.”
So the mbstring php extension should be in php.ini (C:/php/php.ini).
The php.ini should look like this:
**************************
include_path = “.;C:\php\includes”
session.save_path = “C:\Temp”
session.cookie_path = \
doc_root = “C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs”
extension_dir = “C:\php\ext”
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll >>
mysql.default_port = 3306
mysql.default_host = localhost
mysql.default_user = root
mysqli.default_port = 3306
mysqli.default_host = localhost
mysqli.default_user = root
**************************
That’s it!
Anyway thanks again for your tutorial.
Cheers,
Tudor from Romania
July 28th, 2005 at 9:12 pm
Oh, I saw it didn’t show my comment.
The comment is >> and wasn’t show in my post and it’s on the line with:
extension=php_mbstring.dll
If you want to copy this code please remove “>>” from the line.
, wasn’t my fault.
Sorry for this
Cheers again,
Tudor
July 29th, 2005 at 7:10 am
hello,
any suggestion how to solved below problems .. please mail me how to ..
10q .. really appreciated
steven Says:
June 30th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Your guide is excellent and concise. I am having problems similar to others posted above, namely not seeing “mysql†or “mysqli†in the phpInfo and getting the following message from phpMyAdmin:
“cannot load mysqli extension;
please check PHP configurationâ€Â
(which was ‘mysql extension’ before I followed your suggestions.
When I run a simple mysql_connect() program I get,
July 29th, 2005 at 7:11 am
forgot to mention my email ..
i.am.dark@gmail.com
please help me .. thank you
July 31st, 2005 at 8:49 pm
thank you for all of u guys .. i’ve solved my loading extension in WINXP
Add the following lines to httpd.conf:
Note: httpd.conf is located in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\
LoadModule php5_module “c:/php/php5apache2.dll”
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir “C:/php”
August 1st, 2005 at 5:47 pm
thank you it is very usefull,
August 2nd, 2005 at 2:25 pm
thank you sir for this information , but sir my problem still.
i have php and mysql project on apache server which use port 8080.
and i want to add jsp pages on it,
my question is : how can i make configuration for apache server to let jsp run without using tomcat ot other , just apache?
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Hi Jeff
Thanks for this it was just what I needed to get it all up and running on WINXP.
I also had the same problem as most in regards to MySQL and MySQLI not showing up in phpinfo(), but have it working now.
You have to change the following line in the httd.conf file:
PHPIniDir from “C:/php” to “C:/WINDOWS” (that is if you moved your php.ini file to the WINDOWS folder like the tutorial said to early on).
Should also get PHPAdmin up and running.
Thanks again Jeff.
August 3rd, 2005 at 4:15 pm
hi Jeff,
i have already read and followed three or four step-by-step desciptions about installing apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin before, and your one was the first useable version when i haven’t got any error message after finishing the process, tnx!
(i wonder, what the other guys can do with theit own installing based their own desciptions, but that shuld be their problem :))
August 7th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Superb instruktion, after a long while of searching how to start with my PHP\programming i am now finally able to statt, Thanks to JEFF.
I only got a problem when restarting apache2, it telling me that the php_mysql.dll was not found in the library.
I found a sulotion to that on another site and that was to copy libmysql.dll to widows, windows/system and windows/system32 directory.
THEN everything works just fine.
August 12th, 2005 at 2:13 am
This guide is really great and easier to understand because of the pictures and words that are included concise with the proper steps. But only one flaw, this guide should be available in pdf* format as well so that i can print it and read it.
August 14th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Hi!
Thanks for publishing this really neat and easy to understand guide. I’ve got everything set up on my XP SP2 machine and am really happy that I now have a local source to practice coding in php/sql! Much easier than ftp’ing my site to my host in order to verify if I have got things working properly.Again, thanks!
August 15th, 2005 at 6:00 am
Hi
Thanks for the guide, saved me days - incredible how hard it is to get the apps working together.
A suggestion: I noticed that PHPMyAdmin only works locally with the mentioned setup. As I was installing a small server I wanted to access it remotely. Apparantly one needs to replace “localhost” in the file “config.inc.php” ($cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ‘http://localhost/phpmyadmin/’;) with the current IP adress. Don’t know if there is an easier way, this worked for me.
August 19th, 2005 at 1:49 am
Amazing Tutorial! You guys rock!
August 23rd, 2005 at 5:34 am
I have the same problem as the others. I can not see the Mysql and Mysqli in the PHP info. Can somebody please tell me what i did wrong? Thanks.
August 23rd, 2005 at 8:41 am
Hey,
Just thought I would let you know that the naming on the Java page has changed as well as the tomcat installation of jk2 is being discontinued. I had to use Tomcat5.5/9.9 or something like that. It works out fine, your wording doesn’t need to change but the .exe is not distributed with the zip anymore. Other than that the PHP version has changed (but that is happening quickly as they advance the 5 series).
Take care and good article,
Chad R. Smith
Director of Web Development
50 Marketing
http://www.50marketing.com
August 23rd, 2005 at 8:43 am
Oh, and one other thing. Instead of having two icons they made it become one. Tomcat will now just hook it’s icon into the apache2 one. No need to have two icons.
Chad R. Smith
Director of Web Development
50 Marketing
http://www.50marketing.com (comming soon)
August 23rd, 2005 at 9:57 am
Sorry, delete that last comment. I forgot I have my box setup a bit differently from a standard one. There are still two icons. Sorry.
Chad
August 26th, 2005 at 7:40 am
Hi
Thank you very much about your tutorial “Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP”. Thanks for the effort and for sharing.
You sure did a great job, and helped me a lot!
However I encountered some difficulties:
1. When testing php installation I kept receiving this error when starting up apache:
“Unable to load dynamic libraries mysqll.dll on C:\php\ext……”
With some googling-help I bypassed this error copying libMySql.dll to system32 directory.
After this all installation continued normally.
2. I’m a newbie so I didn’t quite understand why http://localhost/jsp-examples/ worked like a charm and
http://localhost/myown-apps-folder/ did not.
I found later that I had to hack the “workers2.properties” file.
I think you can put this directive to your excelent tutorial - just for newbies
like me.
And Some Proposition
You could extend this tutorial a little by explaining how to serve .jsp pages through the apache doc_root folder.
I mean, how this url: http://localhost/test.jsp sould work .
It was quite easy to implement this - with just few lines to httpd.conf, and to server.xml.
I wish you all the best.
Stavros
August 27th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
Just wanted to say “Thanks” for the information on http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/ it was a great step by step guide to installing PHP, MySQL and the apache server.
Great job!!
Scott
September 8th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Hi,
i have followed you instruction in installing apache, php and phpmyadmin. but i encounter error where could not find the php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll module not found.
please help
September 12th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Dude,
I only followed your instructions for apache / php (I already have everything else going).
Very refreshing to find a guide that just works and that I don’t need to stuff around with.
Top Stuff!
September 13th, 2005 at 5:44 am
Excellent article sir. Thank you very much for publishing this.
Regards,
Kausik
September 14th, 2005 at 4:20 am
Please help me for configure php with apache server for using MySQL.
reply in my mail .i am so thank for you.
September 14th, 2005 at 6:48 am
hey!! gr8 man
its really pretty use full to me i have configured JSP to my existing
apache web server very smothly. thanks alot
bye
cheers
Kishor
September 16th, 2005 at 1:31 am
Great guild…. question, since jk2 is no longer supported… have to tried using the lastest jk? which is what i hope to use…. any ideas what will be the diff from your guide? thx a lot
September 27th, 2005 at 10:03 am
The tutorial is Wonderful, but I still have 3 questions:
1) I have php-5.0.3-Win32. I could not found extention=php_mysqldli.dll model on php.ini so when I http://localhost/phpinfo.php . i only can see mysql and not mysqli.
2) I didi not install myODBC, and I could not let phpMy admin work , I only can get welcome to phpMyadmin 2.6.0-pl3 not other part , why??
3) if I start the apach I got error make_socK: coul dnot bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 not listening socket is available, wha tis matter?
Thank you!
October 2nd, 2005 at 3:22 am
Hi….
Thanks a lot for this information….
Was very helpfull to me….
I also have the problem with de 0.0.0.0:80 but I’make it well and I win. Just modify the file httpd.conf for the localhost:8080.
I’m from CHILE (South America) and my english is not so good, but, thanks any way.
ISepulveda.
October 4th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Thanks A LOT for putting this together. It worked perfectly. I sincerely appreciate it. I found your site via LifeHacker.com. Thanks again! Matt
October 5th, 2005 at 4:45 am
I cant see the images in IE 6. Your pngfix.js Script seems to be the reason. Maybe you want to disable that.
October 6th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
Exceptional article. This is the first WAMP installation article i’ve seen that literally gave every single step in easy to understand language (no ambiguities here!)
*****/5
-fau
October 9th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
Jeff,
An omission, I think on the Install JSP page. Under Install JK2 Connector
1. Extract mod_jk2.so from jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2.0.4-win32-apache2.0.49.zip to
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\modules
Which is fine, then later you say:
Add the following to the end of the jk2.properties file located in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf\
But there is no such file in that directory. There are catalina.properties and logging.properties. Did you skip a step in the JK2 installation?
October 15th, 2005 at 5:10 am
GREAT STEP BY STEP GUIDE!!!! I’ve never used Apace, MySQL, or PHP. I followed your instructions to the tee……and it worked flawlessly!!! U Da Man. Now all I need to find are some instructions as easy as yours to tweak the Server exactly the way I want it. THANKS!!
October 20th, 2005 at 10:23 am
God bless you ! ! I have been trying to get the Apache2 & php & MySQL to load without any error messages for 2 days. Your instructions were excelent.
To get a clean run, I had to delete all my previous installations. I used the winXP search function to look for any files the uninstall missed. I then rebooted and started from the beginning. I used the latest version of all the programs except the MySQL. I used 4.1.14 MySQL. Thank you.
October 20th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
Hi.
Just another ‘Thank you’ from another newby. Your tutorial on how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL is short and sweet!
Whish there’d be more people like you out there…
Greets from Switzerland Simon
October 20th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
Thank you so much for your site. I have been trying for about six months or more to do what your site showed me in 5 minutes. Thanks a million, I can finally go to sleep again!!!!!!!!!:)
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:46 am
One of the easiest tutorials i’ve ever done. I wish learning linux was this easy. you should create more of these and for linux. id also like to see gd+ added in this tutorial. i still cant figure out how to get it working for a windows environment.
October 23rd, 2005 at 5:17 pm
Great tutorials! Easy to understand and follow the instructions, especially for a newbie like me!
Cheers
David
October 23rd, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Excellent site!
You helped me get up and running, finally…
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Excellent guide! I’ve been looking for one of these for so long. I know it must have taken you a lot of time and effort to do but it is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
October 23rd, 2005 at 11:50 pm
I installed everything but I am having a problem with PHPMyAdmin, when I do the test to load it in my web browser I get the following error: Parse error:parse error, unexpected’;’ in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpMyAdmin\libraries\database_interface.lib.php on line 18.
What do I need to do to get this working? Please help!
October 25th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Excellent guide. Great Job
Thank you.
October 26th, 2005 at 5:15 am
Hello!
I can’t start the PHPMyAdmin. I try all the solution, presented on this site, but sill nothing.
Please help!
I get that message:
PHP Strtup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘c:\php\ext\php_mysqli.dll’.
October 26th, 2005 at 10:01 am
Great guide!
I’m going to try to install php4 and php5 on one apache httpd server. Say PHP 5 files to have .php4 extensions.
I think there is no such info in your guide. Any idea?
Cheers!
October 29th, 2005 at 5:05 am
Mate, you’re a champion, i have tried to set up the apach mysql php combination far too many times - your ‘walkthrough’ was superb, i only had to Google twice for problems
A couple of suggestions (if you dont mind)
At the end of the phpmyadmin setup, just add that there will be a password required to access it and the username should be ‘root’ and the password is your mysql one.
The other thing i had to Google for invloved copying the msqllib.dll into C:\Windows\Sytem32 to overcome an error “couldn’t find mysqli.dll when restarting apache
maybe just add it as an “it didn’t work” option
Apart from that, it was an excellent walkthrough - really easy to follow and very helpful
Thanks
October 29th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Ah thanks your guide helped with one thing I never would have thought about the ext dir, I just installed php 5 / mysql 5 / apache 2 when I got problems with the mysql (this time NO libmysql.dll actually) since I installed it on another drive so I had to change the ext directory thanks for the help on that bit btw your guide is nice
especially when installing on other drives 
October 29th, 2005 at 7:41 am
other than the fact that a new version of MySQL just came out, this is an absolutely amazing tutorial
October 29th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Excellent tutorial. Had no php, mysql, apache experience but set up in no time. Thanks a bunch.
October 30th, 2005 at 6:44 am
Thanks a lot, I have spent a lot of time trying to get mysql to work with apache and php, and finally I have done it thanks to your tutorial. I had phpadmin working fine, yet my php script was simply ignored. It took me ages to eventually work out that your script setup mysqli, and needed to be duplicated exactly for mysql in php.ini. Once I had done that, and remembered to re-boot Apache, it worked. My test script actually created a table on the mysql database. Thanks for your efforts, I greatly appreciate them.
P.S. To anyone else, new versions mysql etc. have been released, but even with the new changes, this tutorial does work with a little effort, small compared with the enormous effort in creating this tutorial. Once again, Thanks.
October 30th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
Hey, ok so this worked amazingly!
One problem, phpBB does not want to work, says database type isn’t valid, can you give me a hand here? Please.
October 31st, 2005 at 10:27 am
Hola, he realizado la instalación , pero tengo un inconveniente, que no puedo realizar la conexion con el MYSql, le he dado todos los cambios, que indican las paginas , pero no puedo realizar la conexión, necesito que me den una ayuda en esto gracias
English Translation: Hello, I have carried out the installation, but I have an objection, that cannot carry out the conexion with the MYSql, I have given him all the changes, that indicate you paginate them, but I cannot carry out the connection, I need that they give me an aid in this thanks
October 31st, 2005 at 6:47 pm
I updated the guide with MySQL 5.0.15. Apparently, this breaks several apps such as WordPress or phpBB. I recommend using MySQL 4.1 until the bugs are worked out.
This is a result of MySQL 5 actually enforcing “NOT NULL” conditions on the database. MySQL 4 let users get away with not having a default value for required fields. If you want to avoid the hassle, use MySQL 4.1.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Hello, I have follow all the instruction on the website wich are excellent. The only part where Im lost was on instruction #5. Open your httpd.conf file located at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\. Add the following lines, and then save. Question?, where do I have to insert this lines in order to make it work. Hope you can help me on this. And thank yoou very much.
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:31 pm
hi man.
i go try.
from brazil.
saudações
thanks for tutorial.
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:36 pm
I’m trying to install the a localhost server, and I’ve done everything it says (with a couple small exceptions, where I moved the location of some of the directories), and everything seems to be working properly. PHPMyAdmin works, phpinfo is showing that I’m running MySQLi 4.1.7 but WP still can’t find the DB, trying to install a local copy of WordPress and it spits out:
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.
any suggestions?
November 4th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
For WordPress, try enabling the mysql extension in php.ini (you can leave mysqli in there as well). For some reason, WordPress looks specifically for mysql support, and doesn’t accept the newer mysqli extension.
November 6th, 2005 at 3:47 am
Hello. I have wanted to set up a local web server to play around with for quite some time. I finally got around to it today and your guide helped a lot. Thanks
November 6th, 2005 at 5:59 am
I can’t thank you enough!
One heck of a job you did managing all of that info into one straightfarward tutorial. I’ve been searching for something of this kind but the rest are either outdated or have serious errors.
Thank you again!
November 7th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Thank you very much !
November 7th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Great job! It works like a champ! First time! I only installed apache, php, mysql and phpadmin…
only one step left for me… I installed phpnuke and phpbb (created databses, etc…) and when I point to the index.php (either phpnuke or phpbb) I get a blank page. Any ideas where the problem could be?
Marco
November 7th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Great easy to follow tutorial. i am very new to the self server stuff and with your help and a few tips from my brother i had it up and running in just under an hour. i am only using apache and php. tomcat didn’t want to work right but oh well i don’t need it for what i want to do. thanks for taking the time to write it all out !!!!
November 8th, 2005 at 12:57 am
Hello there…..
I have installed Apache 2.0.55 and PHP 5.0.5 perfectly. The problem was with mySQL…
In the MySQL Service Instance Configuration Wizard window, these are the results:
(Checked) Prepare configuration, (Checked) Write configuration file (C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0 my.ini), (X) Start Service, (Not Checked at All) Apply security settings. And an “Cannot create Windows service for MySQL. Error:0…
Did I miss something? I am new to Apache,PHPandMySQL… Can you help me.
jonie d. villejo
davao city, philippines
November 8th, 2005 at 4:21 am
thx
November 8th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Jeff,
Thank you *very* much for this concise, easy-to-read tutorial! I had been searching for a while for a suitable “newbies” guide to setting up a WAMP server setup for testing purposes and after discarding various “how-to” guides and “all-in-one” installers, decided to try yours.
I followed your simple instructions with minor modifications (mainly to a custom install and htdocs directory setup) and it worked without a hitch!
Now I can do all my website testing on my own machine, without tedious FTPing to my webhost!
I found your idea of downloading and installing each component seperately — as opposed to an “all-in-one” solution — to be much easier to deal with, and should — in theory — be easier to upgrade in the future as new versions are released.
I’ve bookmarked your guide, and will be letting others know about it if they need it, it has been a tremendous help.
With much gratitude,
Jondar of http://www.varos.net/
November 10th, 2005 at 7:08 pm
Me gusto mucho la guia para instalar el servidor Web apache con PHP y MySQL, gracias a ello ya tengo corriendo el servidor web en mi propia pc y ya empece a crear una pagina Web dediacada al desarrollo de videojuegos con OpenGL en Creando un videojuego con OpenGL, espero que sigan poniendo guias de este tipo.
Saludos
English Translation: Me a lot of flavor guides it to install the servant Web apache with PHP and MySQL, thanks to it already I have running the servant web in my own pc and already harms to create a paginates Web dediacada al development of videogames with OpenGL in Creating a videogame with OpenGL, I expect that they continue putting you guide of this type.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Yeah I noticed that mySQL 5.0 has some problems not like the “ID INT Not Null auto_increment unique” so I downgraded it to mySQL 4.1 (thought its not fun since I lost many features I really wanted) but We’ll see when I learn to create autoid on ID
November 14th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Hi,
Thanks for this tutorial, it is great but I still got a problem: I can use JSP pages from tomcat but not servlets, any idea of what’s wrong?
Thanks a lot
Gilles
November 17th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Hi,
thanks for the walk through tutorial. It was very helpful, simple and very clear. however, i am experiencing difficulty linking php with mysql. whenever i try to execute my php code through window internet explorer, it does not output anything. But it works fine if the php code where to be executed using command prompt (e.g. C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\Joreck Dizon>php mysqlconnect.php).
Thanking you in advance. Im looking forward to your reply at the earliest convinience.
kind regards,
Dizon, Joreck
November 17th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
hi
its me again. I have managed to sort out the problem. I missed out one step from your guide. how foolish of me. By the way, your guide is the best I have ever seen in the internet. It is simple enough for newbie like me to understand. Thanks again
kind regards,
Dizon, Joreck
November 18th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Thanks a lot!
I finally get wordpress work and running!
I have tried reinstall and reconfigure mysql, php, phpmyadmin and apache over and over but just can’t get wordpress work
Thank you so much for your excellent documentation! You solved my problem.
In my case, the whole thing is:
Windows2000pro,
Apache 2.0.54; MySql 4.1.15
Php 5.0.5 ; Phpmyadmin 2.6.4;
Mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12; Wordpress-1.5.2
November 19th, 2005 at 8:02 am
Hi Jeff
A great set of instructions. I tried a few and had problems and wasted lots of time. Yours worked a treat. I said so at webuser forums and posted a link to your instructions here:
http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/236805/an/0/page/0/gonew/1#UNREAD
I hope you don’t mind.
Thanks for posting the info to share.
m4rk
November 19th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Thank You. This ‘quick’ guide was a good help making apache and php work.
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:36 am
Hi Jeff,
Well done, powerfull work,congratulation!!!
i have problem with my php: everything is runing perfect(phpmyadmin also) all my files with ext. html or js are runing but whenever i use .php it does not work.
Can you help me other someone else
Do well
Festus
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:39 pm
Really really a quality help, very clear and right to point.
regards
Mauro
November 24th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Havent run a site from my house in years. I had forgot how to configure everything….this site was AWESOME!!!!! Was up and running again in no time!
Thank you so much, excellent!!!!!
November 24th, 2005 at 7:54 pm
Jeff:
Lots of thanks!. Everything worked fine for me on my own WAMP experiment. Proof is I set up the thing in less than 3 h. Of course I´m not an IT expert, I do it just for the fun and the learnig.
Congratulations on your EXCELLENT work.
P.S. The presentation is also very nice.
Have you tried other languages apart form english?. I myself, am a native spanish speaker.
November 25th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Thank you very much! Very informative and works great!
November 25th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Hi Jeff, Super Instruction !
I struggled for days trying different versions of Apache, PHP,PHPAdmin’s MySQL, UniServer, etc., etc. Wordpress worked on a virtual pc and sort of started working when connected from another. Goal was an intranet only blog.
Found your instrucations and even though I skipped a few steps and messed up others, managed to get back to the same point.
Finally found a note in a forum about setting the URLs in the Options > General section. What a difference.
My point is, you might add a step about this configuration change to make Wordpress available to an intranet world.
November 26th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Hiya, I was wondering if you would be nice enough to put a secure socket layer guide (SSL) installation for Apache 1.3?
November 28th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Just wanted to send thanx for an excellent site on setting up Apache, PHP, PHPAdmin’s. My friend sent me your link and it was a breeze thanx to your tutorials. I just ran into one problem when setting up phpmyadmin and that was remembering to go back to the apache’s http.conf file and changing the DocumentRoot folder name. Thanks again - your site is awesome.
November 28th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
excellent tutorial.
November 29th, 2005 at 9:36 pm
Jeff, thanks a bunch for the tutorial. Very easy to follow, but I did manage to screw it up. (BobV back in October had the same problem). I can’t find the jk2.properties file in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf\
There are two property files there: catalina.properties and logging.properties but adding the lines to these doesn’t seem to work. Also creating a jk2.properties file and adding the appropriate lines to it didn’t work either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
November 30th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
This is the best step by step installation I have seen. Thanks for everything
December 1st, 2005 at 10:48 am
Thank you so much for this walkthrough-installing those server apps…
Very detailed step by step procedure…
got me workin on my JSPs in no time
GOOD JOB
December 1st, 2005 at 1:10 pm
ERROR!!!
In the section INSTALL PHP the line:
session.cookie_path = \
should be:
session.cookie_path = /
Best regards
December 2nd, 2005 at 6:09 am
I am a noooobbieee, used mpcon’s installation for Apache 2.0.55 Php 5.0.5 and MySQL 5.0 also phpmyadmin… Apache, Php, mySQL and phpMyAdmin works but, my Php Scripts for connecting to MySQL does not display anything from my browser. The browser doesn’t show any Error at all, just NO CONTENT….
Can you Help me?
December 2nd, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Jonie posted a comment about nothing being displayed. In order to diagnose the problem, I’d recommend turning on an error log. To do this,
;error_log = filenameerror_log = c:\php\error.logOnce you’ve done that, PHP will start logging all the errors to that file. Simply go to the page that’s giving you problems and then open the log file to see what errors there might be.
An alternative to this would be to turn on “display_errors”. This will make PHP print out all the errors to the web-browser. This is not recommended since anyone visiting your site will see the error messages to. This is usually considered a security risk. To turn on display_errors, simply find the line that reads
display_errors = Offand change it todisplay_errors = On. Then, restart Apache. If you use this method, I recommend turning it back off once you’re done debugging.December 4th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
Great guide, clear, consise, everything a great tutorial needs.
One thing I feel must you say that is imperitave: be sure that you double check what you type into the php.ini or any important configuration. I spent an hour troubleshooting a problem with connecting to MySQL because of one missing quotation in my php.ini. So double-check!
December 5th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
I am having the same problem as TripN; it seems that they have removed some files they deemed unnecessary from the 5.5.13 release since, 5.5.9 (at least thats what I gathered from the release notes); can’t find the jk2.properties file and adding my own doesn’t seem to work. Any help appreciated!
December 6th, 2005 at 8:07 am
This guide is truly fantastic. I sincerly thank you for writing it. It helped me set this stuff up with such ease. Thanks ver much
December 7th, 2005 at 11:17 pm
Excellent guide - i’ve used it twice now and it’s great to see it updated.
Now, the only problem that i had was when i was installing MediaWiki. I did everything you described for installed the LATEST versions of apache, php and mysql. The only problem is that when i installed MediaWiki there was a conflict between php and mysql (multithreaded prob). So i had to uninstall everything and look at my ISP’s setup and get those older versions of apache, php and mysql that worked together properly. So….you might want to add a MediaWiki guide and get it going with all the latest stuff since you’re the expert!
December 8th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Ok, i just reinstalled all the latest Apache/PHP/MySQL as per your instructions. Then i installed MediaWiki and had the “multithreaded web server” error as i noted in my last post.
Well, i fixed it my uncommenting line 647 in the php.ini file:
extension=php_mysql.dll
This totally fixed the problem! So maybe you can add this last step at the end of your MySQL instructions so installing MediaWiki is no problem and the issue wouldn’t come up.
December 8th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
Great site. Found a fix for mysql 5 and phpbb from their site.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=345312
Thanks
December 9th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Hi Jeff,
I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! I had been going stir crazy trying to figure out how to get all of this stuff installed once I had downloaded the files and your directions were a lifesaver.
You totally rock!
Christian Young
December 14th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
Jeff you rock! I only wish I had found your guide sooner…it would have saved me all of those headaches
roy
December 15th, 2005 at 8:48 am
absolutely *the* best set of installation instructions i’ve ever seen (and i’ve been through a few!). they are concise, and *correct*!!
Chris.
December 15th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Hey Jeff, I was just reading your walkthrough and noticed this:
“Until Apache 2.1 is out, we have to deal with the JK2 connector. Download the latest JK 2 Binary Release.”
Since 2.2 is out, does this mean we do not have to deal with the Jk2 connector? If this is the case, are you going to update the tutorial with the steps that need to be taken to complete the installation without it?
Thanks, you’ve done a great job/service, not only making the tutorial but keeping it up to date!
December 17th, 2005 at 3:47 am
Guide was great, went from IIS to Apache with PHP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin. Alot better. Everything worked splendidly and the guides were easy to follow.
Thanks
December 20th, 2005 at 7:49 am
Thanks very much for the clear guide. One of the really big problems with writing these guides is that the moment you’ve uploaded it, Tomact / PHP / Apache upgrade their internal structure and we all have to start from scratch. It tends to discourage people who write guides as you’re never finished writing it.
Your idea of a wiki guide is really excellent and will take some strain off you.
Everything worked very well, PHP works great and so does MySQL.
However, Tomcat / Apache are not happy. I get
“Can’t locate API module structure ‘jk2_module’ in file C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/modules/mod_jk2.so ”
I’d love to get Apache and Tomcat working, I’ve tried off and on for 4 years and followed a lot of guides. I must have wasted a week over the last 4 years trying and failing to get it working
The problem always comes down to Warp / Jk / Jk2 which is a big f**** disaster area.
I’ve given up on the idea of ever getting Apache / Tomcat to work in a production environment on Win server platforms. I now just use IIS and Tomcat and I’ve successfully set up the IIS/ Tomcat combo on several servers and they run fine.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
December 21st, 2005 at 7:22 am
After installing phpmyadmin when I go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ All i get is:
Error
MySQL said:
Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)
Also since going through the phpmyadmin setup page when I go to http://localhost/phpinfo.php
I get the standard 404 message now:
Not Found
The requested URL /phpinfo.php was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.26 Server at localhost Port 80
I’m not quite sure where I went wrong. I have checked and double checked. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate it. Great tutorial btw, saving me so much time
December 21st, 2005 at 10:12 am
Answered my own question actually.
I downloaded *mod_jk1.2* and not *mod_jk2* specified by the guide.
Once I downloaded “mod_jk2″ it worked fine.
Unfortunately, jk2 is now deprecated and also doesn’t support load balancing so is not much use for a production environment.
Interesting to see what happens with Apache 2.2 but I guess that will take a while to become really stable.
In the meantime, I’m sticking with IIS in production environments and Apache for the tests
December 21st, 2005 at 2:51 pm
just only one comment for installing phpmyadmin tutorial. after you finished all steps in description, you have to open apche’s httpd.conf and add index.php to DirectoryIndex section, otherwise http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ will give you only a directory list.
December 21st, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Finally!!! Got tomcat / apache working on mod_jk (the mod_jk2 is now deprecated so the configuration of JSP which is listed on this site is out of date)
My installation of tomcat is in the C:\Tomcat folder and my installation of Apache is in the C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\ folder
Here are the
1. Downloaded mod_jk.so from http://tomcat.apache.org (click on the connectors and find mod_jk). Note: don’t use mod_jk2, it has been deprecated. Installed it in the C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\modules directory
2. Added to
Added <Listener className=”org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig” modJk=”C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/modules/mod_jk.so” /> to server.xml in C:/Tomcat/conf/server.xml
The full listing is:
<Engine
defaultHost=”localhost”
name=”Catalina”>
<Listener className=”org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig” modJk=”C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/modules/mod_jk.so” />
<Realm className=”org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm”/>
<Host
appBase=”webapps”
name=”localhost”>
</Host>
</Engine>
I then started Tomcat and it generated a file called mod_jk.conf in the C:\Tomcat\conf\auto directory
3. Added this to just below the end of the modules section in the httpd.conf file
# ———————— Tomcat jk config —————————
#
# Configure mod_jk
#
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile “C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/conf/workers2.properties”
JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel info
# ————————- /Tomcat ———————————–
4. Added ## ————– Tomcat path to jk.conf —————-
Include C:/Tomcat/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf
to the end of the httpd.conf file
5. Restarted Tomcat and then restarted Apache and it worked!
Hope this helps someone.
December 22nd, 2005 at 8:57 am
Well I want to thanks all of you that are taking your time to make life a little easier for us beginners.
And I got a couple of questions (of course):
I’m running the apache-php-mysql-phpmyadmin config. on my windows xppro laptop, and I have problems with a loginscript (user_id, password) with sessions (nothing happens, just clearing the formfields).
Even the one with user_id and password stored in a mysqldatabase is not working (Wrong user_id or password).
I know that these scripts are working cause I’m using them on my website, but when implemented on my laptop as localhost nothing happens.
How should I continue? I want this to work! Please help me!
Sincerely Hasse
December 22nd, 2005 at 9:57 am
Oh I forgot!
When I run phpinfo(); it shows that MySql, MYSQLI and Sessions are working fine. I hope this could clear some questions from you pro’s.
Regards Hasse
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Your website is a great resource in helping me install my Apache HTTP server on my Window 2000 system.
But I have encountered problems during the installation and I do not know where to turn to resolve them. The problems are not shown on your website.
I get the following error message:
Only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted. make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
which leaves me with a partially installed and non-functioning Apache Server.
When I did the install I totally disabled my McAfee Firewall so that it would not interfere with anything.
I would appreciate any help you might have to offer.
Thanks ,
JRB
December 24th, 2005 at 2:44 am
I am the owner/webmaster of The Underground : The New Frontier in Rock, and i wanted to thank you for your tutorial on apache,php,mysql.
I messed with apache+pl CGI a while back when i first came into the pc server scene and it didn’t go to well because i was too new to the pc. Eventually i got into asp.net and taught myself VB.net, but the problem is that i have soo many subdomains and only Server2003 will allow for more than one website, but server 2003 sux as a desktop, it supports very little software at all, plus there has been multiples of other problems, even though my sites are up and running fine.
The soloution was to go back to Apache, and run php/mysql, but i couldn’t figure out how to get php configured to work with mysql, and i searched the net for some documentation on how to set up what is the most widely used standard for data driven websites, but found nothing but inadequate info, missing steps for important proceedures, no error notes/soloutions, etc.
…Then i found your tutorial, and when i got to the last step, it worked just like you said it should. I wanted to thank you for the tutorial, and ask you if you have any more tutorials that i can browse through to see if they may be something i can learn from, since i know your stuff is reliable.
I am now one step closer to breaking away from microsoft, so thanx again:
Alex Grim
http://www.GrimMusic.com
December 25th, 2005 at 8:43 pm
Awesome–I find myself going through this process every six months or so, and its always a struggle to remember the necessary steps. The one thing that might add to this is installing Ruby and Rails and the necessary configuration on Apache.
December 26th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
I’m actually working on adding Ruby on Rails to the guide. I’m not as familiar with it myself so it’s a learning process. For a preview, visit
http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/ruby.php
December 26th, 2005 at 5:47 pm
Wanted to post and say thanks for the great instruction set. This saved me many hours. Thanks Again.
December 28th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
Hi there, I found your “quick guide to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine” very helpfull and detailed. However, I have two questions that would like to ask you: first, why can’t I see the pictures (or whatever type of file it is)?; and second can you tell me why when I try to test the “http://localhost/phpinfo.php” file, Macromedia opens and asks me how wheather I want to open or save the file? Basically, if I want to open any php file, macromedia opens and I cannot view the file on my local Apache? An answer would be greatly appreciated!! Regards, Petko Dimitrov
December 30th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Hi,
I have been trying in vein for over 6 hours to configure Apache Version: 2.0.55 and Jakarta Tomcat Version: 5.5.12. I am using you tutorial (http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/index.php). OK I restart tomcat then start apache but this error comes up: “The requested operation has failed”. When The following error is reported when I start apache from the console:” syntax error on line 179 of C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf. Cannot load C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\modules\mod_jk.so into server: The specified module could not be found.
Any help please
December 30th, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Sorry, I am using jk version 1.2.15 (mod_jk-apache-2.0.55.so) connector
January 2nd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Hi Jeff,
I have tried to configure Apache Version: 2.0.55 and Jakarta Tomcat Version: 5.5.12. I am using your tutorial (http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/index.php). OK I restart tomcat then start apache but this error comes up: “The requested operation has failedâ€Â. When I checked the Wimdows Event viewer, I saw the following error “The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> Cannot load C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/modules/mod_jk.so into server: The specified module could not be found.” After shutting my computer down and restarting again,
I cannot even see the Apache tomcat icon on the Taskbar nor start the Apache service. Please kindly help me to fix this.
Thanks
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for this guide. It’s been a breeze so far. But I’m in the Ruby on Rails section and have encountered a problem. Under the “Create a Rails App” header, I did as instructed, but replaced “myfirstapp” with the name of my site in Step 1. Then when I moved on to Step 2, I substituted in the command line the name of my site for “myfirstapp” again. However, now I am getting an error that reads: “ruby: No such files or directory — “C:/Program Files/Apache Group/…etc”
Why the change to forward slashes here? How should I proceed?
Thanks again for the great guide.
January 4th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Jeff I seem to have a problem, for some reason with the setup you did the tutorial on I can only make tomcat work from localhost. Whenever I try to do it from an outside connection it refuses to work. Ive searched and it seems to be a common problem.
(http://tinyurl.com/d3j79)
Do you have any clues?
January 5th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Thanks for the tutorial, thanks for info, install sucessfully…
January 5th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Jeff,
What a legend you are. This tutorial was bloody brilliant. They were easy to follow and spot on.
Well Done
January 8th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
hey
phpmyadmin is not working on my machine it gives the message
” the host name is empty !”
please help me
srinu_neo@yahoo.com
January 10th, 2006 at 7:31 am
Hi Jeff!
I seems to have the exact same problem as RAYNOLD who wrote on January the 2nd. After i have configured the httpd.conf with the ekstra lines about tomcat, and i have restarted tomcat, the apache server just write “The requested operation has failedâ€Â. I dont know what to do here
Please help me out with this one
christian_olesen@fodboldcoach.dk
January 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Jeff,
Great tutorial….thank you so much……
Hope you continue this….
I suggest that you can keep previous version tutorial too…
some of us may need previous version tutorial for referance…..
January 11th, 2006 at 10:17 am
This is absolutely useful and helpful. thank you very much. saved me so much time!!!!
January 12th, 2006 at 3:35 am
The guide is excellent, you’ve heard it many times already and you’ll continue to hear it. I’