PHP5 / IIS 5.1 installation

bluerattle

I have been using PHP5 on my Apple, but now I also have a Windows XP
and I'm having trouble completing the install.

I did a manual install and followed the directions from
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php.
I am installing using the CGI binary rather than the ISAPI module.
The one step I couldn't figure out how to do is:

With IIS 6 (2003 Server), open up the IIS Manager, go to Web Service Extensions, choose "Add a new Web service extension", enter in a name such as PHP, choose the Add button and for the value browse to either the ISAPI file (php4isapi.dll or php5isapi.dll) or CGI (php.exe or php-cgi.exe) then check "Set extension status to Allowed" and click OK.

The XP system I just bought come with IIS 5.1, and I haven't been able to see
how to add a Web service extension with that.

The end result: when I try to open a .php file from my IIS server, it returns
a 404 error.

Any hints on how to get this to work.

(I'm also not sure I understand how to give the IUSR_ permissions to the
php.exe and other files.)

Doug_G

The XP system I just bought come with IIS 5.1, and I haven't been able to see
how to add a Web service extension with that.

That's because it's not the same in IIS 5.1.

I would recommend that you use the isapi version rather than the cgi version, although either should work fine for you.

In the IIS service manager, found in the control panel - administrative tools, in the configuration for your web virtual directory, you can set mapping where you associate a file extension with a particular program or dll. For the php isapi version anyway, you make sure or add .php mapping to c:\php\php5isapi.dll

As far as the permissions, make sure "simple file sharing" is not enabled on XP Pro, and that you are using the ntfs filesystem. Then open the properties page for any file or folder from windows explorer then the Security tab where you control the access control list permissions.