Apache 2.2 won't start after installing PHP 5.6 on Windows 8.1

I am setting up a development environment on a Windows 8.1 machine.

I have successfully installed Apache 2.2 and downloaded php-5.6.3-Win32-VC11-x86.

I added the following lines at the end of httpd.conf

PHPIniDir "C:/PHP5"
LoadModule php5_module "C:/PHP5/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

      

        
        
        
      

    

I also added

application/x-httpd-php .php

      

        
        
        
      

    

to file myme.types

If I comment PHPIniDir

or LoadModule

, apache starts fine.

Also, all extensions are commented in the file PHP.ini

and the extension directory is set as

extension_dir = "ext"

      

        
        
        
      

    

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT 1: The only thing in the error log is the server shutdow

[Sun Nov 23 14:56:07 2014] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Sun Nov 23 14:56:07 2014] [notice] Child 6192: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Sun Nov 23 14:56:08 2014] [notice] Child 6192: Released the start mutex
[Sun Nov 23 14:56:09 2014] [notice] Child 6192: All worker threads have exited.
[Sun Nov 23 14:56:09 2014] [notice] Child 6192: Child process is exiting
[Sun Nov 23 14:56:09 2014] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.