Topic: Dificulties setting up PHP for apache

[enucos]

Hi guys,
I'm new at this, and I encounter some problem setting up PHP for Apache.

I just want to host my own web page that is made with wordpress (http://bancuri-fun.ro/) on an old computer at home.

I have:
Apache 2.4.12 (win32)
Windows Vista
PHP 5.6.5 (win32)


I follow this instructions http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=2394
but somewhere along the way I must made a mistake because when I try to install word press it says that PHP is not installed or is turned off.

I don't know what to do now, what to check and where.

Best regards

[glsmith]

I'd say first try a simple php script to see that php is working in the first place.

test.php

[enucos]

Thanks for your reply, I don't know what I did wrong, and I delte everething and started now again.
Now I'm stuck at the step where I should edit Apache CONF file (httpd.conf). I insert the code like in that instructions, but Apache dosen't start after I save the file.
What am I doing wrong in here?
A bit offtopic: it's Windows Vista or Linux better for what I want?
I'm totally newbi, so I'm thinking witch one is more easy to set up

Thanks

[glsmith]

What are you doing wrong, that's a good question. In those instructions there are two possible ways to set up php, via fastcgi (mod_fcgid) or as an Apache module (php5apache2_4.dll). Which did you try?

Also, Apache has an error log in it's logs folder, it's always a good place to start looking. Secondly, Windows itself has an Event Viewer which can have errors in it. Thirdly, in a command prompt checking the conf files syntax can be of the greatest help and I usually do that after changing anything in my configuration.

httpd -t

It will also show you errors in your config if there are any.

[enucos]

Thanks for helping me, looks like I didn't load the mod fcgid, but I think its ok now.

I tried to instal mySql and I don't know how to change the password or even if it is installed.

I also try to instal phpmyadmin, and faild totally

Now I have this error in error log:

[Sun Feb 15 17:43:07.373779 2015] [fcgid:warn] [pid 5060:tid 888] [client ::1:49391] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\phpMyAdmin\\libraries\\php-gettext\\gettext.inc on line 177, referer: http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/setup/

How can I check if mysql is installed and how can I acces it?

[glsmith]

load the php_mbstring.dll extension in php.ini and restart the server

[enucos]

ok, I did that, and now I have this errors:

[Mon Feb 23 20:02:03.478090 2015] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5720:tid 436] AH00455: Apache/2.4.12 (Win32) mod_fcgid/2.3.9 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Feb 23 20:02:03.478090 2015] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5720:tid 436] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC11 Server built: Jan 28 2015 16:48:40
[Mon Feb 23 20:02:03.478090 2015] [core:notice] [pid 5720:tid 436] AH00094: Command line: 'c:\\Apache24\\bin\\httpd.exe -d C:/Apache24'
[Mon Feb 23 20:02:03.493690 2015] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5720:tid 436] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 5756
AH00558: httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::6191:3097:da19:b8d2. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
AH00558: httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::6191:3097:da19:b8d2. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
[Mon Feb 23 20:02:04.289290 2015] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 5756:tid 384] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.

what should I do with this?

[glsmith]

Nothing, there is nothing in there that would keep apache from running. Those same things should have been there before.

Notices are just that Notices and (unfortunately) cannot be turned off. The only thing there you can get to go away are;
AH00558: httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::6191:3097:da19:b8d2. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
AH00558: httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::6191:3097:da19:b8d2. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

It tells you right there in the message what to do, set ServerName to something in httpd.conf and uncomment the line.

[enucos]

Thanks once again for your help, you are very fast in your replyes. Sorry that I am so slow at this, i don't have so much time for this, but I'm trying

Good to know that apache works now

I try that test.php like you told me before and i get:
500 Internal Server Error

and in the error log file i have this:

Thu Feb 26 16:40:06.804313 2015] [mpm_winnt:warn] [pid 4152:tid 796] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : AH00341: winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.

[Thu Feb 26 16:40:17.474713 2015] [fcgid:warn] [pid 4152:tid 732] (OS 109)pipe has been completed. : [client ::1:49259] mod_fcgid: get overlap result error
[Thu Feb 26 16:40:17.474713 2015] [core:error] [pid 4152:tid 732] [client ::1:49259] End of script output before headers: test.php

[James Blond]

[enucos]

thanks, i don't have that error anymore, but test.php still dosen't work, same message

[James Blond]

Enable display_startup_errors and the normal error log in your php.ini

[enucos]

thanks, now i got a table with a lot of information about php

so i quess that works, thanks a lot for your help