PHP 5.3 on Apache 2.2 error

I have an old apache in a windows server which I want to install php on it because I have a ticketing system(redmine (rails server)) whose database is running with MysQL server. I want to create cron jobs and I realized the easiest way is through phpMyadmin events. Therefore, I need to install php on apache server. I have installed new versions of php and realized that the dll file is for apache 2.4, therefore I installed php 5.3.13 which has the php dll to load for Apache Module.(php5apache2_2.dll) unfortunately apache doesn't load this module, here is the error log of Apache: httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 60 of C:/APPS/webapps/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load C:/APPS/webapps/php-5.3.13-Win32-VC9-x64/php5apache2_2.dll into server: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. I was wondering what can be wrong? I researched forums and they are talking about C++ redistributs which should be installed. I looked at the name of downloaded package and it is VC9, which means it is compatible with visual c++ 2008, well I have that installed already. I cannot install again. It is Microsoft and I don't want to go to hassle of nonesense Microsoft licences. I appreciate if you let me know if you had the same experience in the past. Thanks a lot.