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21. March 2004

PHP5 CGI parallel to PHP4 module on Windows
PHP (wiki) - urs @ 15:38:05

I was looking for a way to have both PHP4 and PHP5 running on Windows. So there was a bit of adaption of the note made by seric [1] to the Windows environment (Installation/PHP5). PHP4 still works as Apache module while PHP5 runs as CGI on a port-based virtual host:


 Listen 83
 <Virtualhost _default_:83>
     ServerName localhost
     ServerAdmin me@localhost
     DirectoryIndex index.html index.php 
     ErrorLog logs/error.log
     # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/core.html.en#limit
     <Location />
       <Limit CONNECT>
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
       </Limit>
     </Location>
     DocumentRoot "C:/www/project-a/"
     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/php5/"
     Action     php5-script /cgi-bin/php-cgi.exe
     AddHandler php5-script .php .html 
 </Virtualhost>

The downloaded PHP 5.0.0RC1 zip package has been unpacked to c:\php5. Then I renamed the php.ini-dist to php.ini and restarted Apache.

[1] http://seric.cowiki.org/17.html