Go to niota download page and download the pre configured PHP version or download an approved version from any official PHP download sites.

It's recommended to shut down Apache when you install/upgrade PHP.
Don't forget to restart it when you are finished.

Unpack the downloaded PHP-file and copy the unpacked folder to C:\Program Files\ (recommended)

Here we assume a PHP version number 7.3.8_x64.

Your PHP version number will be different. Check that you do not just copy the lines from here, but adapt it to you current version numbers.

• Copy “php-7.3.8_x64” into folder: “C:\Program Files\”.

If your Apache is currently running, shut it down!

apache_shutdown.txt

sc stop Apache24x64_niota

Open your Apache ..\conf\httpd.conf file and check if PHP settings are made correctly

• check if PHP path is correct at those lines
  • LoadModule php_module
  • PHPiniDir
• check that that handler are set
  • AddHandler
  • AddType

apache_phpconfig.txt

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

LoadModule php7_module "C:/Program Files/php-7.3.8_x64/php7apache2_4.dll" 
PHPiniDir "C:/Program Files/ php-7.3.8_x64" 

After update from Version 7.x to version 8.y it could look like this:

apache_phpconfig.txt

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

LoadModule php_module "C:/Program Files/php-8.2.18_x64/php8apache2_4.dll"
PHPiniDir "c:/Program Files/php-8.2.18_x64"

Navigate to your PHP folder and open php.ini.

• Verify if paths are set correctly:
  • session.save_path – set it to your apache temp directory
  • extension_dir = – set it to you PHP extension directory

There are some extions that must be enabled. - zip - for EXCEL upload - soap - for Zagreus SOAP calls - sqlserver in case you need native MS SQL connection …

phpini_phpconfig.txt

session.save_path = "c:\Apache24x64\tmp\"
extension_dir = "c:\Program Files\php-8.2.18_x64\ext"

extension=soap
extension=php_zip.dll
extension=php_sqlsrv_82_ts_x64.dll