Re: WAMP64 Apache2.4 & PHP 5.2?

[William A Rowe Jr <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:27 PM Jerry Malcolm <techstuff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm running a very recent version of WAMP x64.  I inherited an 'ancient'
php app that requires php 5.2 and no higher.   I went through the
process of adding php 5.2 to WAMP, and I copied php5apache2_4.dll from
php 5.6 folder and did the other things in the instructions to add a php
version to WAMP.  But now apache won't start and says it can't find the
php5apache2_4.dll file.

I've seen several posts about this error message, but they all reference
different versions.  And I know the dll is good since it works fine on
php 5.6.

My question is... is Win64 Apache 2.4 and php 5.2 a valid combination? 
I don't want to continue beating my head against the wall only to find
out that this combination is simply not possible.  If it is valid, then
I'll continue debug.  If not, I'm in a mess... but it's not a
configuration issue...

You can never combine 32 bit loadable modules in a 64 bit Apache

httpd process. That means x64 is going to require mod_php 64 bit

built against the 64 bit httpd 2.4 and 64 bit php 5.2, in your example.

The sysinternals tool depends.exe for 64 bit can quickly show you

missing dependencies, and whether the loaded exe/dll/so file was

64 or 32 bits.