IIS with PHP

[willsteele]

I searched for this but was unable to find anything productive on the forums and on the web. I've got XP Pro on the machine and will be using IIS with SP2 and PHP 5. What special points do I need to pay attention to? Once I install the IIS and modify the .ini files...what else do I have to babysit? Also, I heard that SP2 won't work with IIS and PHP, but my network admin says that's not true using some of the Zend developer software. Any truth to that?

[Houdini]

I don''t know about PHP5 but I did put PHP 4.1.1 on IIS with XP Home about 4 years ago but didn't like IIS and went to Apache and just forgot about Windows, but the best way to find out is to just download the Windows intaller version and run the install, it will be configured for your IIS whereas Apache requires a little doing on your part, unless you use XAMPP or WAMP. It couldn't hurt to try it.

[Doug_G]

SP2 works fine on XP with IIS and PHP

I recommend following the instructions from php.net and install the isapi version of php

I have php installed to c:\php however the php.ini that's active is in c:\windows

You will have to allow the IIS user (normally IUSR_computername user) to have permissions to the php executables in c:\php. IIS will not have any permissions to that folder otherwise, and your php won't work.

I have Zend Studio 5 and it all works fine with IIS, including debugging, and I have a virtual directory hooked to Eclipse 3.1 workspaces for php, and phpEclipse also works fine with IIS.

Make sure you are a local administrator user when you install IIS. Also, if you're not using the ntfs filesystem in your XP box I'd recommend converting. And turn off "simple file sharing" before installing IIS.