Topic: How do I diagnose setup issues between Apache2.4 and Php5.5?

[Dorian]

Good afternoon,

I am still very new to all this so this may be a very basic question. I tried searching the site and the web for info but failed.

I am running Apache 2.4.9 on windows, the Apache monitor works fine on its own. However, when I press 'Start' while trying to load the php module, I get the following error: 'Error: The requested operation has failed!'.

I am using php 5.5.12 (VC11, Thread Safe version, x86) (I previously tried 5.5.11 with the same results). For the Php install, I saved a copy of the developers's ini file as 'php.ini', activating the windows compatible extension line (apart from that I didn't change anything in the php folder).

In the Apache 2.4 httpd config file, I added 3 lines and changed the Directory index(I unsuccessfully tried using AddHandle instead of AddType):

# For PHP 5 do something like this:
LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

Thank you for any advice you can send my way.

Kind Regards,
Dorian

[Steffen]

What is in the Apache error.log and/or Windows Event Viewer ?

Check if both Apache and PHP are the VC11 win32 or Win64 versions.

Preferred in httpd.conf:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "C:/php"

[Dorian]

Hi Steffen

Thank you for your response.

I have now changed the line to AddHandler.

Apache and php are both VC11, though I have a Win32 version of php and a Win64 version of Apache. Do they both need to be win 32/64?

The error log gave the following warnings:

[Sun May 04 15:26:14.286949 2014] [core:warn] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00098: pid file C:/Apache24/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Sun May 04 15:26:14.329972 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00455: Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun May 04 15:26:14.329972 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC11 Server built: Mar 16 2014 12:42:59
[Sun May 04 15:26:14.329972 2014] [core:notice] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00094: Command line: 'C:\\Apache24\\bin\\httpd.exe -d C:/Apache24'
[Sun May 04 15:26:14.343976 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 7164
[Sun May 04 15:26:14.847359 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7164:tid 464] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Sun May 04 15:42:57.726422 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6568:tid 500] AH00424: Parent: Received restart signal -- Restarting the server.
httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 531 of C:/Apache24/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll into server: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[Sun May 04 15:42:59.727660 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7164:tid 464] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.

[Steffen]

Your combo does not work. Both need 32 or 64.

Try from windows.php.net the "VC11 x64 Thread Safe" version.

[Dorian]

Thank you. The problem is now fixed.

PS: I was previously wary of using the x64 version of php as it was marked as experimental. It is also marked as WIN32-VC11-x64 which I guess is an error in labling.