My Apache setup alongside IIS

Question

Hi everyone, I am trying to learn PHP. I am having trouble getting Apache working correctly on my Vista Home Premium machine.

I have IIS7 running and I would like to have Apache running along with it. I was looking around on the web and some say that it would be fine having the two together as long as they are looking at different ports.

I left IIS looking listening on port 80 and I edited the httpd.conf file in the apache2triad/conf folder to listen on port 8080 and changed the server name to localhost:8080. When I go to localhost:8080/phpmyadmin the page that allows me to create a database looks like all the page styling is off so I know that something is already wonky.

I enter a database name and click the Create button, then receive a 404 error from IIS. It says that it is looking for a file at:

Requested URL: http://localhost:80/phpmyadmin/db_create.php

Physical Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\db_create.php

It's pointing to my inetpub folder but all of my PHP stuff is in the c:\apache2triad folder.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

You do know that PHP runs on IIS?

Answer 2

If you want to get a URL from your Apache server, you need to use port 8080 instead of port 80 (which is where you say IIS is running) - so your URL should be http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/db_create.php

As Shawn said, if you're not familiar with apache at all, you're probably better off setting up PHP under IIS - see http://www.php.net/install.windows

Answer 3

Thanks all for the quick reply.

Really? I didn't know that. Many thanks for the link. I was just following some instructions I got from someone in class. I guess the easiest thing for me to do is to remove Apache?

I'm curious though, I did go to http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin but when I clicked on the Create button it went to http://localhost:80/phpmyadmin/db_create.php. Does anyone know why that would happen?