Please Help!!!!

Anon

I have the php-4.0RC1-Win32 distribution and I am trying to get installed on my local machine running win 98 and PWS, can I follwoed the instructions in the readme file to a tee, but I can't get the system to execute php files it just pulls up the save as diaglog box. Can someone just give me the low down on how to get this thing running. Thanks

Anon

Did you
-copy the php.ini file to the C:\Windows directory?
-copy the php4ts.dll file to the C:\Windows\System directory?
-edit the PWS-php4.reg file to reflect the location of the php4isapi.dll file?
-execute the PWS-php4.reg file to update the registry?
-reboot after doing all of the above?

If so, then have you made the directory that contains your scripts Executable in the PWS manager?

If you do all the above I believe it will work.

Also, I would suggest you update your distribution to php-4.0.2. I have noticed much better performance under Windows with 4.0.2 than with the Release Candidate distributions.

Anon

Thanks Mike, I actually found an installer that someone created, and it toook care of everything for me, also I think I had an older version of PWS, becuase I reloaded a newer version and now everything works, thanks again!

Anon

You might want to try Sambar server from http://www.sambar.com

It's amazingly easy to set up. I haven't tried setting up PHP with PWS, but it can't be much easier than setting it up with Sambar, and Sambar is a "real" webserver.

Somehow, I didn't have to follow just about ANY of the directions that came with PHP to get it to work. I didn't copy the PHP ini to my Windows directory, I didn't copy the ISAPI dll anywhere... I just created a PHP directory on my C drive, stuck the PHP files in it, and changed one line in mappings.ini for Sambar to make it run .php files (pointing it to where I put PHP).

(I also changed the root directory of the local web to somewhere outside of the Sambar directory, but that's not necessary for PHP 🙂

Anyway, it was the easiest thing ever, and based on my experience so far, I'd highly recommend Sambar for local development with PHP.

Keith