Comments on: PHP Apache and Cygwin

by: andy

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:03:31 +0000

I had the same experience as Brett Graham above. I now have a mod_php-enabled apache installation on Cygwin. Thanks for the advice! It was *very* helpful.

by: Terence

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:30:46 +0000

Thanks. Got it working for me but had to keep running the cygwin installer to get required libs.

I did change a few things on step 6:
* I ran the process and was getting a syntax error in the httpd.conf file. It wasn’t picking up the lipho4.dll file so I used libhttpd.dll instead of cyghttpd.dll
AND
* I also made sure that I ran the full command.

Works well. I may try it with PHP 5 later.

by: nelson

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:05:03 +0000

now how do you add MySQL server to this equasion?

by: System

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:37:44 +0000

^ if you’re using apache2 (which you should with php5) and it’s the cygwin package of apache2, the dso modules are in /usr/lib/apache2

you can check the directory prefix that apache2 is using by greping the server root:
`grep -i serverroot /etc/apache2/httpd.conf`

by: bob

Wed, 30 May 2007 19:36:36 +0000

I failed at Step 10: Check the contents of httpd.conf:

Syntax error on line 239 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
Can’t locate API module structure `php5_module’ in file /usr/lib/apache/libphp5.dll: No such file or directory

This is what I have in httpd.conf
LoadModule php5_module lib/apache/libphp5.dll

The file is in fact located in C:\cygwin\lib\apache

Can anyone help.

by: Kutschenreuter

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:07:41 +0000

Much thanks to the author of this installation description. If I would not have found this description, I would not have been able to run PHP under cygwin. But now it is running.

I only want to add that if you want to use graphical functions like imagesetpixel or imageline in your php script you have add
–with-zlib –with-gd to the command line in the run configure step.

by: Jason

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:07:47 +0000

Thank you!!! I’ve gone through at least 3 days of trying anything i could think of or find. This works great.

by: thanh

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:19:02 +0000

Unsuccesful
make install ok

but:
$ /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
Syntax error on line 239 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.dll into server: Bad address

help me

$ cygcheck.exe -cd cygwin apache crypt libgdbm4
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
apache 1.3.33-2
crypt 1.1-1
cygwin 1.5.21-2
libgdbm4 1.8.3-7

by: Brett Graham

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:11:46 +0000

I failed at step 6 becuase I didn’t have /bin/cyghttpd.dll.

I tried re-building apache 1.3 but it would only generate libhttpd.dll.

I tried searing on the internet, and everything seemed to suggest that it was the same as cyghttpd.dll, so I replaced it in the gcc line (I didn’t rename the file!) and it worked fine!

It would be nice if one of us could come up with a list of dependancies, as the one above is too short. I found myself repeatedly running the cygwin setup to get different bits and bobs, as and when things failed. If I’d known how many there’d be when I started out, I would made notes, and pasted them here. Oh, well.

by: mo

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:52:49 +0000

I could not complete the compilation of PHP5 with apache2 on Cygwin though I tried to do step by step as decribed in this page like php4 with apache 1.3. How do I do ….