And now for the standard "installing PHP from scratch" tuturial, no website would be complete without it. In fact, when I did this last week I had to search around for ages for the various information, so here follows a step-by-step list that aims to save you the hassle. Lines starting with a # denote comments, everything else must be typed as it appears.
Before we continue, note the following: for the install to work properly you need to *do everything as root*. And in the order outlined below 
. Also, it is good practice to put all your downloaded files in a standard place, people generally use /usr/local/src/
November 3rd, 2003 at 9:16 am
Every time I install php on a new machine it\’s always been long enough to have forgotten which dlls to copy across, which lines to add to httpd.conf
And every time it\’s a matter of wading through the 4,634 words of the clumsy install.txt that comes with the distro. So here\’s the skinny:
1. install apache
2. copy php files to C:\\php
3. copy php4ts.dll to %SYSTEMROOT%\\system32
4. copy the following lines into httpd.conf:
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
5. add index.php to the DirectoryIndex directive
start apache and you\’re in business.
August 30th, 2004 at 11:54 am
and here’s the equivalent for PHP5.x
1. install apache2 via installer
2. copy php files to C:/php5
3. copy php5ts.dll to C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/bin
4. copy the following lines into httpd.conf:
LoadModule php5_module “c:/php5/php5apache2.dll”
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir “C:/php5″
5. rename php.ini-dist to php.ini and leave it in C:/php5
6. add index.php to the DirectoryIndex directive
7. copy C:/php5/libmysql.dll to C:/WINNT/system32
8. in php.ini, uncomment
extension=php_mysql.dll
9. in php.ini, assign the value “c:/php5/ext” to the directive “extension_dir”
start apache and you’re in business
August 13th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
How do I reinstall php5 with curl mod. PHP5 has been installed on this production server without curl. Somebody help plz