PHP 4.06 + IIS 5.1 (bad cocktail?)

Anon

Hi,

I used to have PHP4, Apache and Win2K working together just fine.

Now I've installed WinXP Pro, which comes with IIS 5.1, so I thought why not give it a chance?

I moved my .php-files to the wwwroot directory and tried viewing a page but got the following error:

Warning: Undefined variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\default.php on line 3

Warning: Failed opening '/includes/pageheader.inc' for inclusion (include_path='') in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\default.php on line 3

Does anyone know what I've done wrong?

Kenneth

Anon

The only think I can guess at bud is check the permissions on the files, make sure they are set to all rw on the directories and the filies within them. I hope this helps.

Dusitn

mithril

Nope, nothing to do with permissions🙂 Apache generates some custom variables, like $DOCUMENT_ROOT, from the $HTTP_SERVER_VARS array. Also any variable you accessed using Apache can be called from this array on IIS. For example, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] should do the trick.

One other bloody annoying thing you're going to notice about IIS is that it reports paths using the Win32 backslash instead of the Unix forward-slash. This is a real pain in the arse if you develop on Win32 locally but deploy on *Nix, or if you need to use the DOCUMENT_ROOT in filesystem calculations. A quick work about is:

  if ($HTTP_ENV_VARS["OS"] == "Windows_NT") {
    $doc_root = ereg_replace("\\", "/", $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]);
  else
    $doc_root = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];

Now use $doc_root instead of $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] in your scripts.

-geoff

Anon

Hmm, it won't work!

There seems to be something wrong with my server!!??

print "X".$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."X";

Simply prints XX

Other suggestions? They will be much appreciated!

Kenneth

mithril

Save the following to a file. It'll tell you what environment variables are available on your server.

<?php

  phpinfo();

-geoff