"Apache 2 and PHP are popular (and cheap!) choices for creating interactive Web sites. Installing Apache 2 by itself under Windows is easy, but installing PHP 4 so it runs without restrictions with Apache 2 is tricky.
"It doesn't help that the PHP 4.3 manual's Windows installation section is silent on installing PHP to work with Apache 2, and the section on Apache 2 installation is missing a lot of the information you need. Other published installation guides contain errors as well, leaving some installers to resort to trial-and-error methods, such as replacing PHP's DLLs with those from another PHP version. But instead of spending hours of frustration trying to figure it all out, you can follow our simple guide through the maze..."
