How to manually install Apache, PHP and My. SQL on Windows Apache. First, I recommend you read the Platform Specific Notes of Apache for Windows it explains some Windows specific features like running as a service that you dont have on other OSes and you probably have never used before. As mentioned in these platform specific notes, Apache doesnt provide binaries for Windows, however they have links to several third party sites that provide binaries, for example Apache Lounge. From that website, we can download either the 3. Bit version win. Bit one Win. OS is 6. Bit you should always try to install 6. Bit versions of software, but note that youll need to use 6. Bit modules as well, that means if you only have a 3. Bit module then download the 3. Bit Apache. Heres the version that I used when writing this Apache 2. Win. 64 it was the latest version when this answer was last updated look at the edit date at the bottom of the post. Once downloaded, just extract the Apache. C Apache. 24bin. Open a command line window WindowsR and type cmd then press Enter, change directory into C Apache. Installing Php5 On Apache Windows InstallIf you get an error dialog stating that MSVCR1. Visual C Redistributable for Visual Studio 2. Bit systems and vcredistx. Bit ones. If you get an error saying that it cant bind to port 8. Skype is known to use ports 8. Use port 8. 0 and 4. Skype to apply the changes, and then you should be able to start Apache without issues. A warning like Could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified domain name can be ignored for now. Windows Firewall may prompt you to allow Apache to communicate on specific networks, I recommend you use the default settings allow it on home and work networks, but not on publicuntrusted networks. Then, open a browser and browse to http localhost, if you see a page saying It works Apache installation is working. You can now stop the currently running Apache by pressing CtrlC in the command prompt. If you got a warning about not being able to determine the systems fully qualified domain name, fix it by editing C Apache. Server. Name variable it should be already there in a comment, just uncomment it and change it Server. Name lt yourhostname. Replace lt yourhostname with either the systems host name or localhost. Finally, if you want to run the server automatically when the system starts even if nobody logs in, youll need to run it as a service in a new elevated as an administrator command prompt, type httpd. How do I install Piwik What are the requirements for installing Piwik Is there a Video that explains how to Install Piwik Do I need to create a MySQL database Guide on building and installing PHP with Apache 2 webserver software from source. Chapter 3. Installing Under Windows. Software Components Required Optional Apache This software is optional if running Windows Internet Information Server. LRl4i9ToZfI/UjQ8gUflzfI/AAAAAAAAAH4/qZ2-PbAzCwU/s1600/8.png' alt='Installing Php5 On Apache Windows 64' title='Installing Php5 On Apache Windows 64' />Thats it, now you have a new service in Services WindowsR then type services. Enter named Apache. Windows service. Restricting Apache access to localhost only optional. If youre setting this up for development purposes you want to make sure that no one except you can access it, your firewall should already take care of that but lets add another layer of security to it by telling Apache to accept requests from the local machine only. Open Apaches configuration file C Apache. Directory c Apache. At the end if it, there should be a line Require all granted, this means that anyone can access this server. Lets make that Require local which only allows access from the local machine. Also, you can tell Apache to only bind to the loopback interface, that way even if both your firewall and the access control directives mentioned above fail, the server still wont be open to the whole internet. For this, locate the Listen directive by default its set to 8. Listen 1. 27. 0. 0. Listen 1 8. The first line is self explanatory, the second one is the first ones IPv. Does anyone know how to install php 5. Ive got a old legacy system that requires php 5. I. WampServer est une plateforme de dveloppement Web sous Windows permettant de dvelopper des applications Web dynamiques avec Apache2, PHP et de MySQL. This tutorial will concentrate on how to install and configure famous LAMP stack Linux Apache, MariaDB, PHP, PhpMyAdmin on RHELCentOS 7. With my existing apache 2. I dont know in this case Apache version matters I installed php5. Vista box as you described. After youve followed all the steps in the article go to a command line. In example using Windows 10 Press the Windows Key. Type FTP. Type open xxx. Installing Php5 On Apache Windows ServiceIPv. Save the file, if youre already running the server then restart it in order to take our changes into account, and now only localhost has access, everyone else will get a 4. Forbidden. PHPI suggest you read the official PHP documentation about installing it on Windows systems. Download the latest PHP binaries from the official PHP for Windows download page, choose the thread safe version that matches your Apache installations bit version x. Bit, x. 64 for 6. Bit. The non thread safe version is only when running as a CGI binary more info here. The version I used is this PHP 5. VC1. 1 x. 64 Thread Safe it was the latest version when this answer was last updated look at the edit date at the bottom of the post. Create an empty PHP folder at the root of your hard drive, and extract the previously downloaded archive there, you should have a path like C PHPext, otherwise you did something wrong. In C PHP, rename the php. Open that php. ini file, search for extensiondir ext and uncomment that line remove the first. This sets the default extension dir to ext which resolves to C PHPext and avoids having to prepend ext to all extensions paths manually like in previous versions of this post. The following is for PHP 5 only. For PHP 7, see Rahul. Now configure Apache to use that PHP, by editing C Apache. Load. Module lines, add the following Load. Module php. 5module C PHPphp. If. Module php. 5module. Directory. Index index. Add. Handler applicationx httpd php. PHPIni. Dir C PHP. If. Module. Now try to start Apache manually by opening a command prompt in C Apache. PHP is most likely working. You can test your PHP installation by creating a file like info. PHP installation and all its modules. If you get something else like an Internal server error that means somethings wrong. You can now kill your current Apache process CtrlC in the console and start the service the following part doesnt interact with Apache and can be done with the server already started. Composer optional. Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP, like a package manager. It allows to easily install PHP packages and even entire frameworks. Composer requires the PHP Open. SSL extension to be enabled, so lets enable it in C PHPphp. Use your text editors search function to search for phpopenssl. Now download Composers Windows installer from their download page or just use this direct link. Follow the instructions, when prompted for the path to PHP, browse to C PHP and select php. Thats it, Composer is now installed system wide and can be used from anywhere you can try it out, just open a new command prompt you cant use one thats already open since it needs to read the new PATH variable set by Composers installer and type composer. You should get a nice ASCII art logo and something like this Composer version e. PHP My. SQL extensions optional. If you want to access your My. SQL database from PHP, youll need to enable extensions that allow you to do so, like phpmysqli or phppdomysql I recommend enabling them both. Global Quality Risk Management Manual here. Open PHPs configuration file C PHPphp. Done, now you can access any My. SQL database using either mysqli or PDO. My. SQLOn the My. SQL Installer download page download the web installer mysql installer web community xxxxx. I used mysql installer web community 5. The installer will automatically install the appropriate version 3. Bit or 6. 4 Bit depending on your system, even though My. SQLs bit version doesnt have to match Apaches and PHPs one but its still beneficial to use the 6. GB of RAM, thats quite important as database servers tend to use a lot of RAM. Follow the steps in the installer, if youre installing this for development then the Developer default will be your best option, itll also install My.