It is a bit hard to figure out the configuration, to get that to work for windows. So could someone come up with an example?

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snorkers commented

I've got so far with downloading APC to run on a Windows 2003 Server, with Apache 2.2.4, but have had to disable APC as each time the Drupal site is accessed, Apache crashes.

I found a PDF on setting up APC for Moodle (another PHP/MySQL-fest) which was great: http://moodle.wilberforce.ac.uk/APC-W2K3-Installation.pdf. To trackdown the php_apc.dll was tricky as the PECL windows site has been down for ages, however, some DLLs are at http://downloads.php.net/pierre/; just try and match the right DLL version to your version of PHP.

The one problem I seem to have (which is probably causing the server crashes) is disabling Zend and allegedly is not compatible with APC. I've no idea why I have Zend in the first place. Is it important? (it may be part of the .MSI standard Windows installs for PHP or Apache - hey, why make things hard?). PHP Info states that the Zend Memory Manager is enabled and that there is a reference number for the Zend Extension. So if I could disable Zend, then I may be able to get further.

If anyone else can shed light on the whole Zend thing, then maybe make some progress on improving the caching to my groaning site. If there's more guidance on APC under Windows, please feel free to shed light.