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Posted:  17 Feb 2005 14:50
>e-novative> WAMP does not use Apache 2 because the integration of PHP into Apache 2 is still experimental. Currently, the only way of getting PHP to run with Apache 2 on Windows is to install it as CGI, which has many disadvantages, mainly bad performance.

Our internal tests with PHP and Apache 2 show that PHP installed as an Apache 2 module on Windows is not a stable solution at all. Since we are dedicated to provide our users a solid and reliable WAMP platform on Windows, we still deliver >e-novative> WAMP  with Apache 1.3.

Note that Apache 2 and PHP work together quite well on Unix/Linux systems (provided that you start Apache 2 in Prefork mode). On Windows, however, this is not the case.