Newbie Troubles

Anacrusis

I've got php 4.3.1 and MySQL 3.23 running on a windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0. Everything seems fine except that none of my pages ever finish loading. Most of the page gets displayed, then it stops and my browser just sits there acting like it's waiting for data, it eventually times out.

anybody have any ideas? I'm completly new to php and mysql. Thanks in advance.

stolzyboy

not too sure what the problem may be, is there anyway a guy can talk you into using apache instead of iis, works much nicer with php than iis does and you will have less headaches

Anacrusis

The thing is, I am an ASP developer by trade. I use my server as a development box for my ASP apps. I just want to experiment with PHP and try to learn as much as I can. The server is not very powerful and I'm not too sure if it can handle running two web servers.

dalecosp

Well, looking at your username I'm tempted to answer that the issue is that PHP is starting one beat prior to the first measure, but that isn't the issue 🙂

I would caution you against giving a link to phpinfo() to the entire web, for security's sake. At the very least, make sure that you remove the page soon. I might remove the link from your earlier post as well.

Have you looked for bug reports relating to your particular configuration? http://bugs.php.net

The first thing I'd do is attempt to determine whether it's network connectivity or a server processing issue. I kinda would assume that since you're local, something is hanging in your server. Have you analyzed what's going on with the Windows Task Manager?

Well, HTH, gotta go...I'll check back later.

Anacrusis

I think that your the first person I've talked to who new what anacrusis meant.

thanks for the tip on posting phpinfo(), out of curiosity, what are the security risks? I really don't see anything that gives out dangorous infomation.

I'll check out bugs page and see if I can find any info. nothing shows up out of the ordinary in task manager, although php.exe shows up 5-6 times, is this normal?

I originaly installed php using the installer, but read many posts about using the zip instead, If i can't fix this, I guess I'll uninstall php and reinstall using the zip.. do I have to uninstall and reinstall mySql as well when I do this?

thanks for your help.

dalecosp

Originally posted by Anacrusis
I think that your the first person I've talked to who new what anacrusis meant.

My degree was in music, not computers. Don't know what that'll do for your problem, though LOL.

thanks for the tip on posting phpinfo(), out of curiosity, what are the security risks? I really don't see anything that gives out dangorous infomation.

Being paranoid is paramount in security. It's not dangerous for you, nor probably for me, 'cuz we're not ubercrackers. However, I see your computer name, your docroot and the name of some of the folders therein, your OS, the type of webserver you're running, your LAN IP, who you are logged in as (I think), that you've installed imagemagick, that you run the MS-SQL server, the names of your temp folders (in short, everything's pretty default.) If you really want to know if there's much harm in it, I'll send a copy of the output to my brother the NT sysadmin for one of the larger cities in my state 😉 Besides, the handbook cautions against leaving it laying around (or was it some other tome I read...?)

I'll check out bugs page and see if I can find any info. nothing shows up out of the ordinary in task manager, although php.exe shows up 5-6 times, is this normal?

I dunno for sure, but my gut feeling is no. What kind of status messages do they show?

Now there was at least one useful thing I get from your phpinfo. The CGI is hanging, it says. Now, that's what needs to be fixed, of course; the question is, though, WHY is it hanging?

This also brings up another point that plays to Stolzyboy's hand: the PHP developers contend that PHP is generally much safer as a SAPI module rather than as a CGI.

I originaly installed php using the installer, but read many posts about using the zip instead, If i can't fix this, I guess I'll uninstall php and reinstall using the zip.. do I have to uninstall and reinstall mySql as well when I do this?

I don't know for sure; PHP has to have specific options enabled to support some libraries, but I'm pretty sure that MySQL support is quite native. Backup the db first in case I'm wrong, eh?