To create a Wamp-like Web Server in Windows7-#2.

   Continued from my last post.

The installation of ActivePerl.

1. Download ActivePerl-5.16.3.1603-MSWin32-x86-296746.msi.
2. Install ActivePerl-5.16.3.1603-MSWin32-x86-296746.msi into Drive_SV (A partition for server wares I made) by the default.
3. Run a cmd.exe
   >perl -v
   If you get the version information, the directory Perl is already added to the Path.
4. Customize the printenv.pl file (Location:Apache24cgi-bin).
   #!D:/programs/perl/bin/perl.exe　　—>　　#!Drive_SV:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

   Move printenv.pl from Apache24cgi-bin to drive_DC:WEBcgi-bin.
   Access http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/printenv.pl from a web browser.

   If you have the server environment variables list, the installation is complete.

5. Remove printenv.pl.
6. (*) To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories, you will need directive AddHandler: (You will also need to add “ExecCGI” to the “Options” directive.)

The installation of PHP5.5.

1. Actually, on Jun 20th PHP5.5 was released, but, this doesn’t support WindowsXP anymore. So, until now, I wasn’t able to use it if I wanted to use it. Now, I have a Windows7 on Xw4200, so I downloaded php-5.5.1-Win32-VC11-x86.zip. This is a thread safe version because my web server software is Apache and OS is Windows. To confirm about this thing, please read the install.txt of PHP by yourself.
   Extract the Zip archive.
   Rename the directory php-5.5.1-Win32-VC11-x86 to PHP.
2. Copy the file php.ini-production as the file php.ini. Customize the php.ini file (Location:PHP).
   

   	Default	Custom
   1	;default_charset = “UTF-8”	default_charset = “UTF-8”
   2	; extension_dir = “ext”	extension_dir = “Drive_SV:PHPext”
   3	allow_url_fopen = On	allow_url_fopen = Off
   4	;extension=php_curl.dll	extension=php_curl.dll
   5	;extension=php_gd2.dll	extension=php_gd2.dll
   6	;extension=php_mbstring.dll	extension=php_mbstring.dll
   7	;extension=php_mysql.dll	extension=php_mysql.dll
   8	;extension=php_mysqli.dll	extension=php_mysqli.dll
   9	;extension=php_openssl.dll	extension=php_openssl.dll
   10	;date.timezone =	date.timezone =”Asia/Tokyo”
   11	;sendmail_from = me@example.com	sendmail_from = My email address
   12	;mbstring.language = Japanese	mbstring.language = Japanese
   13	;mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8	mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
   14	;mbstring.http_input = UTF-8	mbstring.http_input = pass
   15	;mbstring.http_output = pass	mbstring.http_output = pass
   16	;mbstring.encoding_translation = Off	mbstring.encoding_translation = Off
   17	;mbstring.detect_order = auto	mbstring.detect_order = UTF-8,ASCII,SJIS,EUC-JP,JIS
   18	;mbstring.substitute_character = none	mbstring.substitute_character = none

   (*) About the 14-18, it should work by leaving the default. The above 14-18 customization is particularly for my server.

   Three additional settings by the security reason. The 19 and 21 settings might give some troubles on your server. It depends on your server environment. (Edit:Dec.27).

   	Default	Custom
   19	output_buffering = 4096	output_buffering = Off
   20	expose_php = On	expose_php = Off
   21	mysql.allow_persistent = On	mysql.allow_persistent = Off

3. Move the directory PHP to Drive_SV.
4. Make an extra conf file as php55.conf in Drive_SV:Apache24confextra.
   The text of php55.conf:
   LoadModule php5_module “Drive_SV:/PHP/php5apache2_4.dll”
   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
   PHPIniDir “Drive_SV:/PHP”

   Customize the httpd.conf (Location:Apache24conf).
   DirectoryIndex index.html　　—>　　DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
   Add the next two lines to at the end of the Supplemental configuration section:
   # PHP settings
   Include conf/extra/php55.conf

5. Make a php file as test.php in drive_DC:WEBhtdocs
   The text of test.php:
   <?php phpinfo() ?>

Restart Apache.

Access http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/test.php from a web browser.

If you have the phpinfo list, the installation is complete.

6. Remove test.php.
7. Customize the php.ini (Location:PHP).
   ;disable_functions =　　—>　　disable_functions =”shell_exec, suexec, passthru, phpinfo”
8. Restart Apache.

Edit2(2014.Mar.24):
   I enabled the Opcache on 2013 Dec. 27. If you use a lot of PHP scripts on your server, I also recommend the post “Enabled Opcache”.