note 87309 deleted from install.windows.apache2 by danbrown

Note Submitter: acpadhi at yahoo dot co dot uk ---- Attn all users : Apache 2.2.9 and PHP 5.2.6 on Windows Vista 64. (installed through XAMPP). After installing Visual Studio 2008 Express edition with SQL server express, I faced the following issue. With the above combination, the Apache process used to die quite frequently with Windows reporting an error with Apache. Turned out that chaning a few setings in PHP.ini solved to some extent, but it would still happen intermitently when there is a period of inactivity for a few seconds. After 2 days of struggle, found out that for some reason, PHP loaded as a module in Apache, was causing the problem. Changed the settigns to use the php-cgi.exe version instead and the problems were gone. Not sure, if others have faced the same issue. Someone from XAMPP community also pointed out the same issue, with a resolution of having to stop the SQL server related processes stopped, however, in my case, the only way how it could work out fine was by loading the CGI Module. Thought should post, this could help others. Best, Anand Padhi