PHP on Windows 2003

dross333

Hi, I'm installing PHP on windows 2003 and am having a hard time getting it to work. Does someone have a tuturial or some steps that I need to follow to get this to work?

Addon: This is the error I'm getting
Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly.
This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.

Thank
David

DBTaupo

I've just installed it without too many problems. Use the full install zip file, not the windows installer version.

Step1.
Copy php4isapi.dll & php4ts.dll to c:\windows\system32\inetsrv.

Step 2.
Modify the properties of the default website in IIS admin. From the Home Directory tab, click on the Configuration button, and add an application extension for PHP using php4isapi.dll. Do one for php3 if you use them.

Step 3.
Under web service extensions in IIS Admin, click on add a web service extension. Type PHP in extension name, and click on the add button. Select c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\php4isapi.dll. Check set extension status to allowed and click OK.

Step4
In php.ini, change the following directives in the Paths and Directories section (replace c:\php4 with your php installation directory):

Include_Path=".;c:\php4\includes;c:\php4\pear"
doc_root="c:\insetsrv\wwwroot"
extension_dir="c:\php4\extensions"
cgi.force_redirect=0
fast.impersonate=1

I don't remember doing anything else. If I do, I'll add it.

Redline

Hey!

Thank you for the info. I was having problems with a win2k, IIS install. THe CGI version had error on install. So your instructions worked perfectly. I think the only thing left out was the permissions.

Thanks again!

DBTaupo

No problem. Just to let you know that I'm not having much success getting sessions to work. Appears to be IIS related but haven't got to the bottom of it yet,

Redline

I got past my last problem, and now am having problems with session data too. Let me know what you did to resolve this!

Thanks again.

DBTaupo

I had 2 problems.

First, make sure that the session data directory (default /tmp) exists and the IUSR IIS user has read, write, change & delete rights over it. You change the session data directory in the PHP.INI file.

Second, if you are using a 4.3.x version of PHP, remember that all the automatic global variables no longer get created by default. The site I was running relied on these extensively, so you have to change your code to use $SESSION , $POST & $_GET arrays instead. I found some code which creates the globals from these, but you have to specify which ones you want to create. Still, it was easier than recoding every.php file.... You can change this register_globals setting in php.ini, but I decided not to.

Since we are expecting some traffic, I've decided to adopt a mysql data store for the $_SESSION array by writing (well cribbing) a custom session handler instead.

Hope this helps.