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This section holds common questions about the way to install
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PHP. PHP is available for almost any OS (except maybe for
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MacOS before OSX), and almost any web server.
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PHP. PHP is available for almost any OS, and almost any web server.
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To install PHP, follow the instructions in <xref linkend="install"/>.
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On Windows NT+ and Windows Server 2000+:
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On Windows:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>
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Go to Control Panel and open the System icon (Start -> Settings
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-> Control Panel -> System, or just Start -> Control Panel
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-> System for Windows XP/2003+)
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Go to Control Panel and open the System icon (Start → Control Panel)
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Go to the Advanced tab
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On Windows 98/Me you need to edit the <filename>autoexec.bat</filename>
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file:
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<itemizedlist>
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Open the Notepad (Start -> Run and enter notepad)
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Open the <filename>C:\autoexec.bat</filename> file
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Locate the line with PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;..... and add:
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<literal>;C:\php</literal> to the end of the line
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Save the file and restart your computer
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<note>
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Be sure to reboot after following the steps above to ensure that the
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<envar>PATH</envar> changes are applied.
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</note>
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The PHP manual used to promote the copying of files into the Windows
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system directory, this is because this directory
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(<filename>C:\Windows</filename>, <filename>C:\WINNT</filename>, etc.)
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is by default in the system's <envar>PATH</envar>. Copying files into the Windows
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system directory has long since been deprecated and may cause problems.
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There are several ways of doing this. If you are using Apache, read
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their installation specific instructions (<link
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linkend="install.windows.apache1">Apache 1</link>, <link
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linkend="install.windows.apache2">Apache 2</link>), otherwise you must
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set the <varname>PHPRC</varname> environment variable:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>
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Go to Control Panel and open the System icon (Start -> Settings
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Go to the Advanced tab
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Look into the 'System variables' pane
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Click on 'New' and enter 'PHPRC' as the variable name and the
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directory where &php.ini; is located as the variable value (e.g.
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<literal>C:\php</literal>)
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Press OK and restart your computer
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file:
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Open the Notepad (Start -> Run and enter notepad)
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Open the <filename>C:\autoexec.bat</filename> file
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Add a new line to the end of the file: <literal>set
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PHPRC=C:\php</literal> (replace <literal>C:\php</literal> with the
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directory where &php.ini; is located). Please note that the path
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cannot contain spaces. For instance, if you have installed PHP in
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<filename>C:\Program Files\PHP</filename>, you would enter
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<filename>C:\PROGRA~1\PHP</filename> instead.
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Save the file and restart your computer
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There are several ways of doing this. If you are using Apache,
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refer to the Apache documentation, otherwise
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you must set the <varname>PHPRC</varname> environment variable.
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