Completely lost with set up of php

fawkes · Aug 30, 2005

OK, this is what I've done.

I've downloaded php-4.4.0-Win32.zip from

http://www.php.net.

I extracted the files to C:\ and renamed the folder c:\php

I copied php.ini-recommended to c:\windows, renamed it php.ini and edited the following:

doc_root = "c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot"

cgi.force_redirect = 0

(I did notice that cgi.force_redirect = 0 started with a semi-colon)

In the IIS manager I accessed the properties of the Default Web Site and in the home directory mapped a path to C:\php\php.exe with the .php extension.

I've created a test page

Code:

<html>
     <head>
     <title>My First page in PHP</title>
     </head>
     <body>
     
     <?php print "<p>Hello world</p>"; ?>
     
     </body>
</html>

I'm using PHP Designer 2005 and the debug shows the html code fine but I can't see it in the localhost browser.

If I call

http://localhost/test.php

from my browser (either firefox or IE6) I get a connection refused when connecting to localhost, but I can connect to html files in the same folder using

http://localhost/temp.html

What am I doing wrong?

MattNeeley · Aug 30, 2005

Try using command.com (ms dos prompt) and get yourself to the php folder. Now type in php.exe -i. If php is able to run properly then it'll spit out a bunch of html into the ms dos prompt.

fawkes · Aug 30, 2005

Tried that and it spat out the html in the command window, what does this lead me to now?

fawkes · Aug 30, 2005

It works now, here's what I did.

As per the install.txt file;

I copied the files from the c:/php/dll and c:/php/sapi folders to the main folder c:/php

I set the following in the ini file

extension_dir = "c:/php/extensions"

cgi.redirect_status_env = ENV_VAR_NAME

Now it works, I don't why, it just does [ponder]

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Completely lost with set up of php

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