Apache, PHP & MySQL
A few tips for those who may be interested in running Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Windows platform.
First I suggest installing Apache first (always the latest stable version). Next install MySQL (again the latest version), and finally PHP. You can check your apache by going to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 and if you get a message other than 404 then you are ok. I suggest editing the httpd.conf for apache, and php.ini for php. Now comes the file copying part that I have found necessary to get everything communicating via php. libmysql.dll and libmysql.lib should be copied from your MySQL\Opt folder to your PHP folder. I would also copy the php.ini, php5ts.dll and php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll from your PHP\ & PHP\ext folders to \Windows folder. You also will need to copy php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll from PHP\ext to PHP folder. For some reason all the file copying is mostly necessary to get PHPMyAdmin to work sans fussing.
