php and virtual directories under windows 2000

Anon

I have just installed php4.03 on a Win 2000 server running IIS 5 and on a Win NT 4 Server running IIS 4. In both cases PHP works ok from directories inside inetpub/wwwroot folder but when I try and execute a php file from a virtual directory I get the error message

Warning: Failed opening 'D:\php\hello.php3' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0

has anyone got any ideas what is causing this and how I can fix it?

thanks in advance

Jay

Anon

Please someone help us I am having the exact same problem!

Anon

I think i understand why this problem occurs, but have no idea how to work round it at present.

I also have this problem and have tried PHP4 as both a CBI and ISAPI under NT4/IIS. This is what I think is happening...

Virtual directories exist only for HTTP requests. When you do an include("...") you're doing a file request so PHP is going directly to the file system right? That's why it can't open the file as the directory simply does not exist.

e.g. i have two sites each have a folder (i.e. sub site) in iis.

The first is called test1, the second test2.

test one has a sub folder "includes". in the root of test1 this would work

include ("./includes/allinc.inc");

so i create a virtual dir for test2 and point it to includes in test1. if I then do the same include from the root of test2 it does not work.

What else can we do... anyone?