The directory name is invalid.

phpKiwi

I have just started learning PHP and MySQL. I have a simple database I downloaded from Hotscripts.com and have set up the db and all that jazz. I am running IIS on WinXP Pro and I can view the index.php page without a problem, but any other page I go to has the error "The directory name is invalid."

Any ideas on why I'm getting this error?

I started with a simple page pulling quotes from a db and the page worked fine when it was index.php but wouldn't work when it was quotes.php.

Must be something simple I am missing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

dalecosp

More info. What is the name of the page you're going to? What is it's pathname supposed to be? How are you navigating to this page (link, etc.)?

phpKiwi

Well - my first page is index.php and that page displays correctly. The page I link to is anything except index.php. For example, I link to a page named addquote.php and the page will not display. I have been doing more research online too and I found out that it could be a problem with the latest php and IIS5 - so I removed the 4.3.2 php and installed 4.2.3 (or something like that) but I still getting the same error.

It is only when I am attempting to connect to the DB. If I am just linking between pages without any connection to the DB, it is fine. I am thinking it has to do with how the php page is attempting to connect to the DB - giving the error "The directory name is invalid".

Crazy IIS, MySql and PHP. :p

Thanks for your help.

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