Thanks, I did, and now I can restart Apache. Here is my simplest PHP script. <?php echo $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; ?> And the output is 127.0.0.1 Can't ask for more than that! I hacked a small script in order to connect to MySQL, containing these lines. <html> <head> <title>a simple example</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <p>Welcome to the very first MySQL database.</p> <?php # USHL home page $conn_id = @mysql_connect ("localhost", "sampadm", "secret") or exit (); mysql_select_db ("sampdb") or exit (); $result_id = mysql_query ("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM member") or exit (); if ($row = mysql_fetch_row ($result_id)) print ("<p>The League currently has " . $row[0] . " members.</p>"); mysql_free_result ($result_id); ?> </body> </html> Unfortunately I did not get anything else than the HTML paragraph. However, if I run this query from the command prompt, C:\mysql\bin>mysql -h localhost -u sampadm -psecret sampdb Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 408 to server version: 4.1.0-alpha-max-debug Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> select count(*) from member; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 102 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.05 sec) mysql> I Do get a result, but not from php + apache, only from the command prompt. So it seems to me that PHP and Apache is living well under Windows, but I can't get the MySQL database to communicate with them. What can I do, please? Is this the right place for MySQL + php questions? Yours sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen "Manon" <purplespirit@hccnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 000801c387ea$ac7917e0$b64cc23e@Giga">news:000801c387ea$ac7917e0$b64cc23e@Giga... Try this: put a copy of the php4ts.dll in your php\sapi folder -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Morten Gulbrandsen [mailto:Morten.Gulbrandsen@rwth-aachen.de] Verzonden: dinsdag 30 september 2003 18:04 Aan: php-windows@lists.php.net Onderwerp: Can't start php under Apache after Load Module php4apache.dll Hello Programmers I try to run a service. Apache 1.28 (win32) under win2000 And gets this error: Microsoft Management Console Der Dienst "Apache" auf "Lokalen Computer" konnte nicht gestartet werden. Der Dienst hat keinen Fehler zurückgegeben. Es kann sich um einen internen Windows-Fehler oder einen internen Dienstfehler handeln. Setzen Sie sich mit Ihrem Systemadministrator in Verbindung, falls das Problem weiterhin besteht. C:\>NET START APACHE Apache wird gestartet. Apache konnte nicht gestartet werden. Der Dienst hat keinen Fehler gemeldet. >From my edited httpd.conf file: LoadModule php4_module "c:\temp\php-4.3.3-Win32\sapi\php4apache.dll" AddModule mod_php4.c AddType application/x-httpd-php .php However Apache did start and run smoothly before I attempted to append the directives in httpd.conf. How can I run php version 4.3.3 Apache version 1.3.28 MySQL server version: 4.1.0-alpha-max-debug successfully under Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] Please ? Yours Sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen