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Any problems you might have with Apache-2.2.x and PHP 5 are most likely due to Windows, not due to an incompatibility between the two. I am running Apache 2.2.8, PHP 5.2.5 (including mysqli support) and MySQL 5.0.54 on my Linux box here.

I usually have more problems configuring IIS (even on Windows SBS 2003 and it gives you a tun of crap to 'help') than Apache 1.x, 2.x. That's because I know what I'm doing with Apache, and there's more reliable documentation on apache than there is on IIS. As for PHP5 working on Apache, they are compatible and have set up Apache a tun of times.

There are reconfigured versions of the LAMP stack for windows.

A friend of mine claimed that XAMMP has mysqli support. Don't know from first-hand experience, but it might be worth a try.

I've used XAMPP before (although that was 10 years ago), and was very very very easy to setup.

Solar wrote:A friend of mine claimed that XAMMP has mysqli support. Don't know from first-hand experience, but it might be worth a try.

Yep, for that particular situation I would suggest using latest XAMPP. It comes with Apache 2 (web server), MySQL 5 (database server), FileZilla (ftp server) and Mercury Mail (email server) along with switchable PHP 4/5... plus you get to fore-go the configuration overhead

I have used XAMMP as well, and it is indeed easy to install and configure.

PLESK is also another easy to setup bundle.

I personally prefer IIS7 though, because it is both easy to setup and it makes installing modules a breeze.