Another one of those Apache/PHP woes that you may be experiencing. If you’re handling your WAMP installation yourself, then read this just for the extra knowledge.
If you’ve just installed Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3.1, and you’ve found this post, you may be perplexed by the following error as seen in your system logs:
Faulting application name: httpd.exe, version: 2.2.11.0, time stamp: 0x493f5d44 Faulting module name: php5ts.dll, version: 5.3.1.0, time stamp: 0x4b051b35 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000e618c Faulting process id: 0xbb8 Faulting application start time: 0x01ca9b8df97d87c0 Faulting application path: C:\bin\apache\bin\httpd.exe Faulting module path: C:\bin\php\php5ts.dll
Apache seems to start fine without PHP enabled (commenting out the PHP lines at the bottom of your httpd.conf file), but with PHP enabled it doesn’t start and you get the above log entry in your system logs.
The Solution
If you are using the MSI installer for PHP, by default the installer seems to enable MSSQL. Disabling this extension should fix all your woes.
If you are still having issues, here are some things to check:
- Make sure Apache CAN start without PHP enabled.
- Make sure PHP is set in your PATH environment variable.
- Make sure you downloaded the correct version of PHP for your system (basically VC9 for IIS or VC6 for Apache).
If you are in need of the MSSQL extension, your issue maybe that you do not have a certain DLL installed (ntwdblib.dll). I’m a MySQL user myself, so I’m not going to go into details other than: here is a quick reference that might help (good luck).
Thank you very much.
I solved the problem.
I’ve been puzzling over this for a day or so. Thanks for posting this.
Wow, thanks! Fixed it!
Hi i had this some problem, when i installed Microsoft Web Platform after my Apache with PHP dont go. Now i all fix how you write, but i have problem all schripts are load very slow, before it was good.
Scripts end with Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded, before it was ok.
THX
Hi
Thanks, I had problems on a win 2008 server , the solution to comment extension was not good for me, the fix was intalling the right php version
http://windows.php.net/download/ VC6 worked excellent.
Thanks again
Thanks for the pointer! I found that VC9 and VC6 generated errors. The key was to not enable extensions for PostGres and Oracle if you don’t have them installed.
Thanks Beren, I removed PostGres (Oracle seems to be default off) in the PHP VC9 installation and my apache server works again!
Why does the above information say that VC9 is for IIS though?
The problem is that your php directory is probably not on the path for Apache, so php5ts.dll cannot find the ntwdblib.dll on the path. Make sure to put your php directory on the SYSTEM path. You have to reboot the machine so that services get the new settings.
Hi, none of the fixes (including the one above) that I found online worked. In the end, after uninstalling/re-installing apache and php multiple times and checking all that is mentioned above as well as on every other forum about this, I downloaded a zipped version of php (instead of running the msi installer). I downloaded the zip file from somewhere on the apache.org site but I cant find it now. Hope this helps people!
One of the Reasons can be…
The extension_dir parameter in php.ini is not set.So this error pops up as the system cant find the DLL or supporting libraries.
Is it some kind of joke??
It is WAMP, windows, apache, php NOT windows, iis, apache!
Why is it the developer include a VC9 php in the package???
After fruitlessly trying virtually _everything_ I’ve googled on “windows php slow”, disabling MSSQL and some other unnecessary extensions in the php.ini finally helped! Thanks a bunch!
Thanks! I’ve been trying to install Drupal to play around with it and updated XAMPP and couldn’t figure out what was going on. Commenting out all of the MSSQL bits in php.ini fixed it.
I ran into this while upgrading Apache from 2.2 to 2.4, which required me to update my PHP.
In the process, I had Apache remove and re-add my service entry (so the service name changed from apache2.2 to apache2.4). After I did that, this error started popping up, but only when Apache was run as a service – it worked fine if I launched Apache from the command line.
I decided it was a permissions problem, since services don’t get full permissions by default. I went and changed the logon account for the Apache2.4 service to log in as Administrator, and poof – problem solved.
I don’t recommend you leave the service set to run as Administrator, but that is the quick fix. Ultimately, you’d want to nail down where the permissions problem is and sort it out at the root cause, so you can run the service under the less-privileged account for security reasons.