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[Chucky_5150]

Ok...I got a lil problem.

I got a win 2k3 server running IIS 6.

I just installed php on it, at least to everything that I know and read.

it should work.

I got 2 lil test pages (don't know why 2, but what ever)

can't get anything to work. I change the .php to .asp and well a page (mind you blank) shows up. I'm eveing viewing the pages from http://localhost/

when I try to open a .php page I get the good ol' 404 "The page cannot be found" error

I'm 95% sure I got the permissions set up right.

any ideas would be great.

Thank you

[sprintserve]

Under your IIS web extensions, is PHP enabled?

[Chucky_5150]

Originally posted by sprintserve
Under your IIS web extensions, is PHP enabled?

yes sir. with the exe of c:/php/php.exe and all verbs. Script engine is checked.

btw: doc_root = C:\www (yes that is the root dir for my HTTP server)

[sprintserve]

Did you create a default website in IIS? And point the home directory at where you put the files.

[Chucky_5150]

Originally posted by sprintserve
Did you create a default website in IIS? And point the home directory at where you put the files.

I don't know how "default" it is, but yes I got a web site hosted there

I've even looked in the php.ini some more, and I can't see anything that shows up as out of place.

I've never installed PHP before, but I can't seem to find anything I'm missing.

[mwaseem]

Follow these steps...

. Remove the existing IIS Extension from IIS
. Create a new extension and add path to <path-to-php>\php4isapi.dll
. Create application mapping for PHP on your default web site so that IIS would execute .php files with <path-to-php>\php4isapi.dll
. Set verbs to GET,SET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG

This should work for you as it is working for me

[Chucky_5150]

Originally posted by mwaseem
Follow these steps...

. Remove the existing IIS Extension from IIS
. Create a new extension and add path to <path-to-php>\php4isapi.dll
. Create application mapping for PHP on your default web site so that IIS would execute .php files with <path-to-php>\php4isapi.dll
. Set verbs to GET,SET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG

This should work for you as it is working for me

Ok, let me make sure I'm going to do this right. Seeing as how I'm more of a linux junkie (and not much of a junkie at that).

"Remove the existing IIS Extension from IIS"
you want me to remove the existing .php (?) extesnion

the php4isapi.dll is in the same directory as the php.exe

so really I don't need to update the PATH info, because it's the same dir (c:/php) right?

I edited thephp mapping to point to the php4isapi.dll (used to be php.exe) and set the verbs.

Still getting page can not be found.

ugh.

yeah, I'm really new to this stuff if you can't tell.

[Chucky_5150]

Ok I uninstall everything. I did a search to make sure I didn't miss someting. then I rebooted.

I reinstalled (this time from the installer.exe), made sure I added the permissions that I told me to add.

Still get the same "page can not be found" error.

aghaghahg!

Maybe I'll give apache a try, since I don't have any need for asp at all.

[boonchuan]

Under IIS , there are SMTP , FTP, Web and Web Extensions, did you go to Web Extensions to enable PHP?

[Chucky_5150]

Originally posted by boonchuan
Under IIS , there are SMTP , FTP, Web and Web Extensions, did you go to Web Extensions to enable PHP?

yeah....to the best of my know-how I did. But IIS is off and replaced with apache 2.0.


You know that feeling when you been up all night working on something.

well here it is

I ended up installing apache 1.3, then found out that apache 2 was out. So I uninstalled 1.3, installed 2.0. Then installed PHP 4.3.11

and it works!

thanks for your time.