How to install and configure PHP 5 on Windows box

It is assumed that you have already successfully setup IIS or installed Apache on your machine and configured it. So, to configure PHP and secure its correct operation you need to go through a couple of steps.

1. Download and unzip the latest version of PHP


2. Rename/copy php.ini-recommended to php.ini


3. Create a session state directory and point the session.save_path variable in php.ini to it


4. Setup the PHP extensions


5. Make sure that PHP folder is in the system path


6. Configure IIS


7. Configure Apache Web Server


8. Test your setup


9. Date Setting


10. Location of libmysql.dll