Hi, I did this installation i do not know how many times...it worked till now. But it seems that today, i forget something and i'm lost :-( I have the following lines in my http.conf from apache 2.2 configuration file. # ----- for PHP ---- LoadModule php5_module "c:\PHP\php5apache2.dll" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php PHPIniDir "c:\PHP\" # ------------------ therefore, apache serve does not start. If i comment loadmodule and PHPdir lines, Apache starts ... could you help me to understand where is this stupid mistake ? thanks a lot, Alain