php 4.3.3 & IIS 5.1 gone bad

[silent11]

I installed php4.3.3 on my new winXP box and php scripts aren't running at all. my browser just stalls when I point it to a script.

not even phpinfo(); works

[goldbug]

That's neat.

[silent11]

Well is this some kind of knows bug? I've installed PHP with no problems before... Even on XP, but these two new Dell boxes something seems to be going wrong.

[Phracas]

I was going to make a new thread, but it seems we may have the same problem... so I'll jump on this band wagon.

I have installed PHP on my XP machine and it is not working either. I have created a simple page that just prints phpinfo(). I am able to run this page using php.exe from command line with no problems. However, browsing to it though IIS will just hang until the CGI timeout. I have ensured that .php files point to the php.exe in IIS configuration. I have also made sure that my Anonymous access account (machine/IUSR_name) has full control access to my PHP installtion folder (and children). PHP.INI seems fine. Not sure what else to check... any suggestions?

[goldbug]

Tried using the SAPI dll instead of the CGI binary?

[Phracas]

I had thought about trying that, however it is not a good end solution for me. My production machine is running the CGI, and I would prefer my development machine to run the same.

I will give it a try though, if nothing else it may give me some insight into why the CGI version is not working.

[Phracas]

Ok, so thats interesting! I downloaded the Zip (as opposed to the installer like I was using before) so I could try out the ISAPI DLL. I just unzipped it all right into the same directory. I decided to give the CGI one more try... and sure enough it worked fine. I am guessing that a file was needed that was in the zip? or maybe the permissions created by the installer were wrong? Either way... its working now.

[silent11]

Thanks for jumping on the bandwagon Phracas, I'll give that .ZIP a try!!

[helz]

hmm I got a timeout error when installing php 5.0.2 on IIS 5.1
fixed it by pointing the Mappings to php-cgi.exe instead of just php.exe