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sasanf

I have installed PHP 5.x on a Windows 2003 Server. I am running IIS 6.0. I installed PHP using the instructions provided at the following link: http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html. I created the test.php file and it did pull up a webpage with a lot of info about the configuration of my PHP install. I can also get to my Squirrel Mail home page which is written in PHP. I can also login to my email accounts from Squirrel Mail. Everything seems to be working fine. I get the error, "unknown(): unable to load dynamic library 'C:\PHP\ext|php_dbx.dll'- the specified module could not be found." I get this error a 15+ modules. I've looked in my ext directory and all of the modules the errors say can't be found are there. What could be causing these error to come up at startup and how can I fix it?

tsinka

Hi,

did you copy all non-PHP dll files to system32 or to a directory specified in the PATH environment variable ?

"The specified module could not be found" in most cases means that a dll needed by the specified extension couldn't be found.

Regards,
Thomas

Houdini

Your php.ini should look like this

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir = "C:\php\ext\"

The caps unless you have renamed the php folder to PHP might be the cause of your problem also it is possible that you do not need the dbx.dll I use either MySQL or MySQLI and do not use this module perhaps you should merely comment it out in the php.ini like so

;extension=php_dbx.dll

then restart your server and see what you get.

sasanf

Yes, my directory is in all caps but the path is also in all caps. I had quotes around the path so I tried removing the quotes; same errors. The php_dbx.dll isn't the only one that I am getting the unknown() error for. I am getting the error for over 15 and I do need a lot of the ones that I am getting the error for. Also, I made the path variable the php folder. I also created the registry key that I was instructed to in the tutorial that I used to install and configure PHP. You can find the link to the tutorial in my previous post. Any other ideas? Thank you for all the help thus far.

Houdini

If you go to the official site you can download a version of PHP that will self install either with a basic functional installation or an advanced which will ask questions as you are installing. To save yourself a lot of headaches I would follow the installation from the people that actually worte and developed PHP mostly PHP.net.

Here is the link to Windows Install. I would personally remove what you currently have just to ensure a clean install then download the Windows installer zip unzip it then run it and follow the on scree prompts.

I personally use Apache although I did use IIS about 4 years ago but just did not like it and have used Apache ever since, the only benefit to using IIS is that you could also use ASP (which I don't care for at all).

sasanf

I had originally installed the CGI version but it wouldn't work on my 2003 machine. I had tried it initally on my XP machine and it worked fine but when I installed it on my 2003 machine it didn't work. I found out why I was getting the unknown error. In my path variable I hadn't put in the colon after the C. But now that I have put it in, when I restart I get the following error for all of my extensions (the API numbers do change with each extension):

Unknown(): (null): unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
PHP compiled wth module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=1

These options need to match

I disabled all of my extensions except for the extensions I need for SquirrelMail and I still get the above error for each of the enabled extensions. I don't understand how versions are wrong. I downloaded PHP from the PHP website and I downloaded the PECL from the PHP website. Help.

tsinka

"PHP compiled wth module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=1" means that the PHP core is either version 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 and the modules you try to load are those of a newer version. Check if the iis configuration references an old php version.

Please check if there is an old php.ini in the windows directory. I'd recommend to uninstall php completely (including all php directories and any dll and php.ini that you copied to the system32 or windows directory) and then to install php again.

IIS loads the somehow loads the wrong version.

Thomas

Houdini

Well then there is always Plan B which is when all else fails

Scrap the IIS
Download XAMPP
Run the XAMPP install
Start using PHP 5 MySQL 5 phpMyAdmin Perl and more...

If you want to add extensions then look in the C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini and uncomment those extension that you need then restart the Apache server with the control panel.

Weedpacket

Another way to check the versions of PHP modules on Windows is to look at the .dll files' properties - their version numbers should match that of php.exe (and should also match the version number returned by phpinfo(), php_version() and the result of running php -v from the command line).