Gareth Hunt » php http://www.garethhunt.com Firefox Addons, Mobile Web and living in the USA Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:12:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 PHP and Cygwin http://www.garethhunt.com/2008/02/06/php-and-cygwin/ http://www.garethhunt.com/2008/02/06/php-and-cygwin/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:00:08 +0000 Gareth http://www.garethhunt.com/index.php/2008/02/06/php-and-cygwin/ I've been having some problems with PHP and Apache 2 on windows recently. I would be doing some development work and refreshing the page to test progress and after some short time Apache would stall and require a restart. I tracked the problem down to using the binary module that comes with PHP. If that module was removed from the Apache configuration, the webserver would be just fine - but without PHP running.

So, I took a look at cygwin to see whether PHP could be made to work with it. I already had the Apache 2 webserver package installed, so all I needed was PHP. Looking at the official PHP packages, there is no support for PHP. After some searching around the net I found a blog called Cygwin Ports. This is linked to a sourceforge project and it has a PHP 5.2.5 package for cygwin.

Installing packages from Cygwin Ports was as easy as adding the URL ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports to the cygwin server list. So, I followed the instructions for including their package, installed PHP and wrote a quick test script using only phpinfo():

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I typed http://localhost/index.php and Success!

The next step was to get something more complex working, specifically CMS Made Simple. But I'll leave that for next time.

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports
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