PHP CGI Error with IIS 5.0

Anon

My Environment:

Win2K Server
PHP 4.04 (installed via installshield)
IIS 5.0

Problem I'm getting:
Upon trying to run any php file, I get the message...

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

And that's it. I used a header checking tool and I this is what I found:

REQUEST: ****\nGET /vblite/admin/misc.php HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: localhost\r\n
Accept: /\r\n
\r\n
RESPONSE: ***********\nHTTP/1.1 502 Gateway Error\r\n
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0\r\n
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 02:38:31 GMT\r\n
Connection: close\r\n
Content-Length: 215\r\n
Content-Type: text/html\r\n
\r\n
<head><title>Error in CGI Application</title></head>\n<body><h1>CGI Error</h1>The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:<p><p><pre></pre>finished.

Any ideas? Is this an IIS problem? a PHP problem? a win2k server problem??

Thanks,
Tommy

Anon

Do you get this message if you run info.php?

Anon

In your presonal web manager select Advanced options, Click in virtual directorys
open <home> catalog and make sure that execute is cheked.

good luck

Anon

Where is this file located? I can't find it anywhere on my webserver.

Anon

You must write it, here is the script

<? phpinfo () ?>

and save the file as info.php

when you run it it will give you all your install info

Mick

Anon

Ok Mick, I ran PHP info and get a whole bunch of information about my install...i don't get the error message. So I assume that my PHP is working ok and there's something wrong with the PHP scripts I'm trying to run?

Anon

I solved the problem:

When I don't work in safe mode (php.ini, safe_mode = off) and don't set doc_root any
value, everything works.
Even if I don't work in safe mode and I set doc_root to c:\Inetpub I get the CGI error.

Copy all your php-Files in the c:\Inetpub\wwwwroot

Martin

Anon

I had the same problem running:

WIN98
PWS
PHP 4.0.6 Windows Installer php.net

I first installed using c:\php
This gave me the cgi header error.

I then did a re-install using g:\inetpub\php

This worked great. I then deleted my original
c:\php directory which resulted in server errors.

I pulled the php directory back out of the Windows Trash and back to the c:\php location and all was well again.

My guess is that I need to change a directory path in php.ini to show the g:\inetpub\php location of the php*.dll

If anyone is interested I will let you know what fixed the problem when I get it fixed.

Charles

Anon

I NEED TO KNOW!
I get this error message :
CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

🙁

thank you!

/regards SyntaxError

Anon

With IIS it means that the page you are looking for doesnt exists.

You must check the checkbox "check for file existence" in the "console->iis->your website->properties->home directory->configuration->your php extension"

SyntaxError wrote:

I NEED TO KNOW!
I get this error message :
CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

🙁

thank you!

/regards SyntaxError

Anon

This solved the problem perfectly! THANKS!

Any idea why this is the case? Obviously the file is there, but IIS needs to make sure for some reason? I don\'t quite understand the innerworkings of PHP and IIS that well, but I would be curious to know.

Anyone?

Anon

i have tried the suggestions about moving the directory under the inetpub dir, and the turning off the safe_mode, and checking the "Check that file exists" box, but i still keep getting this error.

does anyone have any other suggestions?
does anyone know what the real cause of the problem is?

it seems like php is getting run almost correctly, meaning the pages will process so long as they do not require form input.

i can query databases and load data into pages, i just can't get the forms to pass the info in the headers.

thanks,
eddie.

Anon

Did you fix this issue of yours? I am facing a similar problem. I have php 4.2.1/win 2000/iis. Everything seemed to work fine before I installed Oracle 8.1.7 (earlier I had 8.1.6). I tried the three fixes described in earlier threads of changing doc_root etc. in php.ini, checking execute in pws and shifting files to c:/inetpub/wwwroot. Nothing worked.

It was working in exactly the same settings before the install. Could that have changed any settings?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Anon

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! My install of PHP now works!

Anon

Eddie,

If PHP mostly works but you can't get POST form variables, try two things:

1) Use the $_POST array to get the variables (see FAQ at www.php.net

2) Edit your php.ini file (usually in C:\WINNT) and turn on register_globals

Bill