Step to check Apache port 80 status

Please find the following command to check on the 80 status in Windows 7
netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80
You should able to see the port 80 being listened by the Apache server.

upon installed the PHP, there are two things that need to be inserted into the httpd.conf


LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll" under the module section

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php5 under the section

Insert the "index.php" into the DirectoryIndex section.