Installing Apache webserver and PHP together on Windows 7 proved to be more cumbersome than it should be. I had seen this error many times when starting Apache.<\/p>\n
“The requested operation has failed”<\/span><\/p>\n I went through many different versions of Apache and PHP until I hit the right combination, which I now going to document here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Install PHP<\/span><\/p>\n This PHP is a manual installation.<\/p>\n php-5.2.17-Win32-VC6-x86.zip<\/strong><\/p>\n copy the sample php.ini-recommended to php.ini<\/p>\n If necessary point to the ext directory (PHP defaults to the current directory unless you change it)<\/p>\n [code]<\/p>\n extension_dir=”C:\\php\\ext”<\/p>\n [\/code]<\/p>\n I am not using an installer, so modifications will need to be made to the Apache config file (httpd.conf) <\/span>so that Apache knows of PHP’s existence.<\/p>\n Install Apache<\/span><\/p>\n httpd-2.2.21-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi<\/strong><\/p>\n and modify the contents with the following (of course ‘…’ is not part of the config file. just put the lines in the correct areas of the file.)<\/p>\n [code]<\/p>\n LoadModule php5_module “c:\/php\/php5apache2_2.dll”<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n <IfModule dir_module> …<\/p>\n AddHandler application\/x-httpd-php .php<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n # configure the path to php.ini [\/code]<\/p>\n create a test page (phpinfo.php) and put it in the htdocs. If you see output, PHP is installed correctly!<\/p>\n [code]<\/p>\n <?php phpinfo(); ?><\/p>\n [\/code]<\/p>\n If all else fails run<\/p>\n httpd -e debug<\/p>\n from the console and view the output. It will usually tell you which module it is unable to load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Installing Apache webserver and PHP together on Windows 7 proved to be more cumbersome than it should be. I had seen this error many times when starting Apache. “The requested… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDirectoryIndex index.html index.php
\n<\/IfModule><\/p>\n
\nPHPIniDir “C:\/php”<\/p>\n