I'm going insane here, so with what little time I have left before finally losing my mind I'm going to post here, pleading for help.
Here's the thing; I don't know how many of you are familiar with Sunshop, it's basically an install of OSCommerce with bells on. It requires PHP and MySQL and I'm trying to get these running on my local machine. It's an XP SP2 machine.
I've downloaded PHP, oh, maybe 25 times now. Each time thinking maybe I got the wrong install package the last time. I've narrowed it down to one package:
php-5.2.3-Win32.zip
Which comes with extensions but requires manual installation. I'm fairly handy with windows so I thought it would be no bother. I was wrong.
I've added the PHP.exe in IIS, set up the PHP.ini file in the windows directory, set up the PATH to point to the extensions directory, and even thrown the mysql.dll into both system and system32 directories out of desperation. Nothing works.
Well, that's not strictly true, various elements DO work, but I just cannot get the whole thing to work seamlessly.
So at the moment I've got IIS set up to run PHP but whenever I test using local host it won't display my test PHP page. It thinks about it for quite a while, then eventually says there's no page to display.
I've followed PHP.net's new guide on installing in windows....and it confused me into bouts of furious anger. I've followed various tutorials online and still I cannot get this to work.
Can anyone out there either explain or point me to a clear, cleanly laid out tutorial on how to get PHP running in Windows XP SP2?
Please! Before I take up ASP.net!