I've been trying for around 5 hours to get PHP and Apache running. I was using Vista on my server but am upgrading to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise x64.

I was using the standard PHP & Apache distributions so they are x86 based.

But I install Apache and it works fine. I get the "It Works" page. But if I install PHP, with auto configuring Apache, I am not able to view PHP! If I modify the "It Works" page to add:

<?php
HELLO
?>

No error is returned. Correct PHP also doesn't return anything. What's going on?! I I install WAMP I get two errors and nothing works there, either. I have tried installing WAMP on several computers and always get errors.

There might be some issues with Vista.

I also failed to get it all working the first time I tried. I used the xamp installer on XP and it was a very painless install.

I have also heard good things about the wamp. I have never tried it.

How are you trying to view PHP?

Try copying this file to note pad and save it to a folder in your htdocs folder and then call it in your browser as localhost/directory/whatever you named it.

<?php
// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();
// Show just the module information.
// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
?>