2018-07-22 Install PHP & Think-PHP5 on Windows-7

Step 1 Download php-7 from official web-site

I selected to download php-71 VC14 x64 Thread Safe (2018-Jul-19 11:54:52)from the official site

Step 2 Make a copy of the configuration file

• Make a copy of the configuration file copy php.ini-development php.ini
• Open the file and change the value for extension_dir

extension_dir = "E:\Downloads\tools\php71\ext"

Step 3 Configure PHP for Apache

• Open Apache's configuration file conf\httpd.conf, from E:\Downloads\tools\Apache24\conf
• Add LoadModule php7_module E:/Downloads/tools/php71/php7apache2_4.dll to the LoadModule sections
• Add PHPIniDir "E:/Downloads/tools/php71/" to the end of the configuration file.
• Add below AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
• Restart Apache by httpd.exe -k restart

Step 4 Test the installation

• Create a file test.php under E:\Downloads\tools\Apache24\htdocs

E:\Downloads\tools\Apache24\htdocs>type test.php

• Access from the browser & check http://localhost:7070/test.php

Step 5 Download and install think-php

• Create a folder for it
• Change directory to the folder

E:\Downloads\tools>mkdir tp5
E:\Downloads\tools>cd tp5
E:\Downloads\tools\tp5>

• Clone the source code using git

E:\Downloads\tools\tp5>cd ..

E:\Downloads\tools>git clone https://github.com/top-think/think tp5
Cloning into 'tp5'...
remote: Counting objects: 13548, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 13548 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 13545
Receiving objects: 100% (13548/13548), 23.21 MiB | 256.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (8143/8143), done.

E:\Downloads\tools>cd tp5

E:\Downloads\tools\tp5>git clone https://github.com/top-think/framework thinkphp
Cloning into 'thinkphp'...
remote: Counting objects: 44318, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32/32), done.
remote: Total 44318 (delta 10), reused 20 (delta 5), pack-reused 44281
Receiving objects: 100% (44318/44318), 12.97 MiB | 495.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (27409/27409), done.

E:\Downloads\tools\tp5>

Step 6 Configure for Apache

• Copy the folder tp5 into E:\Downloads\tools\Apache24\htdocs

E:\Downloads\tools\Apache24\htdocs>tree .
卷 Tools 的文件夹 PATH 列表
卷序列号为 E885-5830
E:\DOWNLOADS\TOOLS\APACHE24\HTDOCS
└─tp5
    ├─application
    │  └─index
    │      └─controller
    ├─config
    ├─extend
    ├─public
    │  └─static
    ├─route
    ├─runtime
    │  └─cache
    ├─thinkphp
    │  ├─lang
    │  ├─library
    │  │  ├─think
    │  │  │  ├─cache
    │  │  │  │  └─driver
    │  │  │  ├─config
    │  │  │  │  └─driver
    │  │  │  ├─console
    │  │  │  │  ├─bin
    │  │  │  │  ├─command
    │  │  │  │  │  ├─make
    │  │  │  │  │  │  └─stubs
    │  │  │  │  │  └─optimize
    │  │  │  │  ├─input
    │  │  │  │  └─output
    │  │  │  │      ├─descriptor
    │  │  │  │      ├─driver
    │  │  │  │      ├─formatter
    │  │  │  │      └─question
    │  │  │  ├─db
    │  │  │  │  ├─builder
    │  │  │  │  ├─connector
    │  │  │  │  └─exception
    │  │  │  ├─debug
    │  │  │  ├─exception
    │  │  │  ├─facade
    │  │  │  ├─log
    │  │  │  │  └─driver
    │  │  │  ├─model
    │  │  │  │  ├─concern
    │  │  │  │  └─relation
    │  │  │  ├─paginator
    │  │  │  │  └─driver
    │  │  │  ├─process
    │  │  │  │  ├─exception
    │  │  │  │  └─pipes
    │  │  │  ├─response
    │  │  │  ├─route
    │  │  │  │  └─dispatch
    │  │  │  ├─session
    │  │  │  │  └─driver
    │  │  │  ├─template
    │  │  │  │  ├─driver
    │  │  │  │  └─taglib
    │  │  │  ├─validate
    │  │  │  └─view
    │  │  │      └─driver
    │  │  └─traits
    │  │      └─controller
    │  └─tpl
    └─vendor

• Modify conf/httpd.conf, remove the indexes for the directory access

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted

• Configure Apache to recognize index.php

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

• Restart Apache using httpd.exe -k restart
• Visit http://localhost:7070/tp5/public/ and now we see welcome page from think-php

Reference

• Official site to download PHP for Windows
• Blog to install PHP on Windows
• Guide for Think-php
• Disable Apache to show content of folders
• Configure Apache to recognize index.php