I wanted to use the latest stable versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL, so I uninstalled the existing Apache package and downloaded the sources for Apache 1.3.12 and PHP 4.0.3, along with the binaries ...

You can take advantage of the official PHP Docker image, which also includes Apache. All you need is to add the php5-mysql extension to be able to connect to the database server.

How to make a database connection to MySQL in PHP Note: You can also use the MS SQL code if you first have Web Services define an ODBC DSN for your MySQL database.

Learn how to troubleshoot Apache 2 when it's not executing PHP files with this easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial.