Can't begin yet?!

[clint_c]

I installed the Microsoft Personal Web Server (it's working - can open html documents); downloaded the PHP install package and followed the insturctions as to where to put the files/change-add to the registry etc.

However I get a 403 error when I try to open my simple .php test file (it too should work, it does on a remote php enabled server).

I've use MSExplorer to check the porperties of the folder I'm using for this (f:\PHP_HomeDirectory) and looked at the web sharing properties (I have all three, read, execute,scripts checked) and that seems ok.

I presume this is occuring when my system tries to run the php-cgi-exe program that I linked everything to.

What do I do to cure this?

[rIkLuNd]

What address do you type in the browser URL field?

[clint_c]

I have been using the url "http://127.0.0.1/phptest.php" to get to the little script I wrote to test whether or not I'm connecting.

Your question prompted me to test the value "http://localhost/phptest.php" too but that also did not work

[rIkLuNd]

I also used PWS at first, but I couldn't make it work, so now I've installed phpTriad (mysql,php,apache...). Contact me at MSN Messenger ([e-mail]), if you want to have it (size about 11M😎.