Really just notes for me, but it might help someone out. To setup php 5.0.3 with apache 2.0.25 as an apache module Apache is allready installed Get the .zip version has everything you need http://ca.php.net/get/php-5.0.3-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror This goes in the httpd.conf # #PHP setup # LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php PHPIniDir "C:/php" Change DirectoryIndex and add index.php, mine looked like this afterwards DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php