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Download Win32 Binary (MSI Installer) version for windows platform.After download start the installation process.

 

you will find the installation process as shown below.

 

 

 

 

Now you will be asked server information.You can enter localhost for both the Network Domain and Server Name. As for the administrator's email address you can enter anything you want.

 

 

Click the Next  and choose Typical installation

 

 

Now you will be asked ,destination folder. Click Next

 

 

Now click on Install

 

Click finish to complete installation.

 

 

Now you have successfully installed apache.To check if your Apache installation was successful open up you browser and type http://localhost in the address bar. You should see something like this .

 

 

Now go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf and open httpd. It sud open in notepad. now find these lines.

 

change it to

 

Make a folder in c:/ and name it as www

After making changes to the configuration file you have to restart Apache

Start > Programs > Apache HTTP Server 2.0.50 > Control Apache Server > Restart

 

Now c:/www is the document root where you must put all your PHP or HTML files so it will be process by Apache ( and can be seen through a web browser ).

 

 

Now change directory index. This is the file that Apache will show when you request a directory. As an example if you type http://www.techhunt.org without specifying any file the index.php file will be automatically shown.

 

 

Suppose you want apache to use index.html, index.php or main.php as the directory index you can modify the DirectoryIndex value like this :

 

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php main.php

 

 

Find this line in httph file

 

and replace it by

 

 

Now whenever you request a directory such as http://localhost/ Apache will try to find the index.html file or if it's not found Apache will use index.php. In case index.php is also not found then main.php will be used.

 

 

 

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After downloading the setup..start the setup.

 

 

Click Next

 

 

Here you will be asked destination folder.Put C:\Program Files\PHP\ as destination folder...and click Next

 

 

Now you are at web server setup.Select Apache 2.2.X Module and click Next

 

Now you are at select apache confrigation dictionary.Here select this path

and click Next

 

Now you can see "choose items to install"

 

 

Expand Extensions...and select MYSQL to install as shown below.

 

 

Click Next

 

 

Click Install

 

 

 

Open a notepad ..and type following:

 

 

and save it as phpinfo.php in c:/www folder

 

Restart your computer.

 

After re-starting the computer..open IE and type following url

 

you should see page like this:

 

 

If you can see this page..congratulation you have sucessfully installed PHP 5.2 and apche 2.2.x

 

 

 

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Follow simple instruction, and complete the installation.