Where can I download php?

[gokou]

www.php.net don't work. I get cannot find page when I click on any of the downloads'. www.downloads.com don't work. I do have a downloaded version, but it didn't come with all the files for some reason. Where can I download one that doesn't have any missing files'? I've been trying to make it work all day, so i'm a little annoyed.

[pyro]

php.net works fine for me... If it still doesn't work for you, let me know, and I'll upload the installer to my server for you to download it...

[gokou]

It still don't work. I think it has something to do with the apache server i've been trying to set up.

[pyro]

You should be able to install PHP whether or not you even have any server software loaded on your computer. Did you use the installer?

[gokou]

I've downloaded php from some other site, but folders'/files seem to be missing because I read the installer.txt and it tells me to do things' with folders' that I don't have. One of the folders' that is missing is sapi. Heres a list of the folders'/files' it came with:

BACKUP

sessiondata

uploadtemp

IISConfig.exe

installer.txt

License

php.exe

php4ts.dll

I am unable to download from php.net. I was hoping if I downloaded from them, I would get everything.

[pyro]

Ok, I uploaded it to my server for you to try downloading it from, if you want. The link is http://www.infinitypages.com/files/php-4.3.1-installer.exe (1.02 MB)

[gokou]

Thanks' for putting it up there for me to install, but unfortunately, it was the same installer I had. I'm still missing files' or maybe i'm not. Maybe i'm just not doing everything right. I am using windows me. It seems like windows me isn't compatible with anything.

[gokou]

What does this mean?

Now that version 4.1 introduces a safer sapi module, we recommend
that you configure PHP as a module in Apache.

To accomplish this, you have to load the php4apache.dll in your
Apache httpd.conf.

!! NOTE !!
Whereever you load php4apache.dll from, php4apache.dll also
needs the php4ts.dll also included in the PHP4 distribution.
php4apache.dll depends on php4ts.dll which is loaded as soon as
Apache loads php4apache.dll. If php4ts.dll can't be found, you
usually get an error like (also see the "Problems?" section at
the end of the file):

Cannot load c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll into server

It tells me I need to load "php4apache.dll" apache httpd.conf in apache. How do I do that when I don't have a file anywhere called "php4apache.dll? Am I suppose to make it?

Also, it wants me to add this to my httpd.conf after I got all the files organized or something.

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Confusing......

[jpmoriarty]

you'll notice this text below the one you downloaded:

(CGI only, MySQL support built-in, packaged as Windows installer to install and configure PHP, and automatically configure IIS, PWS and Xitami, with manual configuration for other servers. N.B. no external extensions included)

if you're trying to set up for apache, then you'll need the one above it at this location (http://www.php.net/get/php-4.3.1-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror).

It's a bigger download (~6 meg) but it will have everything you need. Also make sure you have apache set up and working properly first.

[gokou]

Thanks' for the download, i'll mess around with it a bit.

For some reason i'm unable to download anything from php.net with ie, but I was able to with netscape.

[gokou]

I have apache and php working together without showing any errors'.

I'm trying to make pages with dreamweaver, but first I need to make a root folder, it says this:

After the server software is installed, create a root folder for your web application on the computer running the web server.

Make sure the folder is published by the web server—in other words, the web server can serve any file in this folder or in any of its subfolders in response to an HTTP request from a web browser.


I'm not sure where i'm suppose to put the root folder so that it works' with both php and apache.

I just read more. Am I suppose to put the root folder inside htdocs folder?