title: Is it posible to use symfony 2.0 with WAMP server reliably?
body: <p>This is my setup:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Windows XP SP2</li>
  <li>WAMP 2.2 (php 5.3.9, apache 2.2.21, mysql 5.5.20)</li>
  <li>Symfony 2.0</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I run into a problem which is basically this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9788980/symfony-2-0-vendors-apache">Symfony-2.0 vendors Apache</a></p>
  
  <p>Everything seems to be fine:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Running mysqltest.php connects OK to the database.</li>
  <li>localhost/web/config.php is OK (just recommends setting up intl and APC)</li>
  <li>"php app/bin doctrine:schema:create" creates the schema successfully.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But, when I try to:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>"localhost/web/app.php"</li>
  <li>"localhost/web/app_dev.php"</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Apache crashes (windows popup saying something about php5ts.dll) and the only meaningful thing on the log says:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>[Fri Apr 27 05:03:54 2012] [notice] Child 3528: Starting thread to listen on port 80.</li>
  <li>[Fri Apr 27 05:07:00 2012] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.</li>
  <li>[Fri Apr 27 05:07:01 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) PHP/5.3.9 configured -- resuming normal operations</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The solution to the question I referenced previously is to use php 5.4, well, as stated in
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10155624/how-do-i-get-pdo-to-work-on-wamp-with-php-5-4">How do I get PDO to work on WAMP with PHP 5.4?</a> 
  besides 5.4 not being officially supported by WAMP, many extensions don't work on 5.4 (APC, PDO maybe?).</p>
  
  <p>Older versions of php are also ruled out. Official WAMP addons exist only for php 5.3.0 and 5.3.1, while symfony2 requires at least 5.3.2.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried this on a Windows Server 2003 machine, with the same results.
  This is taking so much time I'm even considering throwing in a Linux VM on the server with my usual symfony setup.</p>
  
  <p>So I need to know whether it's posible to have a stable symfony2/WAMP2.2 environment which does not imply losing extensions and symfony2 functionality such as doctrine.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas are welcome.</p>