Install edPHP on IIS7 - PHP pages won't display

[rogerte]

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but please bear with me.

I have a Vista PC with IIS7(*), and have just used the Web Platform Installer to install PHP.

(* I know some people will say ditch IIS and use Apache, but it is a corporate laptop and they decreee that it must be IIS)

It all seemed to go ok, and as far as I can see (after Googling various web sites) the php.ini seems to be correct - and I have the same ini file in both the PHP and Windows folders.

If I try to call localhost/test.php (just has the usual phpinfo call in it) the browser (IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari) just displays a blank page. In fact if I try to display any php page that is what happens. If I misstype the php pahge name I get the IIS page not found error.

HTML and ASP pages display perfectly.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

Roger

 

[joejack84]

Not sure if you found an answer yet, but the problem is probably in your configuration.

I assume for your php tags you are just using <? and ?>

In order for that to work you need to turn Short_Open_Tag on in your php.ini

To test if this is the case change your <? to <?php and see if it works

 

[johnwm]

In the IIS management suite did you add php to your mappings? See Control Panel|Admin|IIS|Default website|Home directory|Configuration and make sure you have added the .PHP extension and a path to the appropriate PHP executable

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[rogerte]

Sorry for delay in getting back, but have been on holiday!!

JoeJack - never use the short form.

johnwm - mappings seem ok.

Will have another investigation later this wekk, when I have caught-up with everything I've missed over the last few weeks!

Many thanks