Don Denton wrote: > SETUP: I am running Windows XP home SP2. I downloaded Apache 2.0.59 and > then 2.2.4 (both using the windows32 bin with msi) to try to solve this > problem but it exists in both versions. > > PROBLEM: In trying to enable the modules (specifically one dealing with > enabling PHP) I found that, instead of referring to ".dll" files, the > configuration file referred to ".so" files. I am new to this and from what > I can tell, those files should be ".dll". What should I do here? I have > tried to ignore the apparent problem, but as a result I could not enable > PHP. There seems to be no documentation on this, or after 4 hours of > searching, my brain was too fried to see it. What problem? The LoadModule directives in your config refer to files in the modules directory. We name them with .so - but they are no different than any other apache-compiled .dll. You can LoadModule a (windows compiled) apache module named mod_foo.so, or mod_foo.dll - the name makes no difference. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx