PHP 5.166 on IIS 6 working - sort of

[runningphan]

I am able to view php file that shows me the entire PHP configuration so I know that PHP is installed properly and php files are being sent to the php5isapi.dll on an IIS 6 2003 server.

I have some other php pages that collect information on a form and then write it to a text file. Simple enough. It works on my local computer that is running apache so I know the php code is fine but I never get the text file contents at all when I run it on the IIS 6 box. I also have an echo command that doesn't seem to be processed either.

I'm sure it is a security configuration issue but I'm stuck...any ideas?

 

[sleipnir214]

Are you saying a phpinfo() script works, but nothing else does?



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[runningphan]

Yes

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL

phpinfo();

?>

works just fine and show all the php information

BUT

<?php

$my_data = "This is the data to be stored in the text file.";

// Open the file and erase the contents if any
$fp = fopen("test.txt", "w");

// Write the data to the file
fwrite($fp, $my_data);

// Close the file
fclose($fp);

?>

doesn't produce the test.txt file.

 

[sleipnir214]

If there was a problem writing to the filesystem, PHP should have produced an error.

What are you php.ini settings for "display_errors" and "error_reporting"? Until my machine goes into production, I would edit my php.ini file so that the setting "display_errors" is "on" and the setting "error_reporting" to "E_ALL".

But in general, it's probably because the userid as which your web server runs does not have permission to write to that place on the filesystem.



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[runningphan]

I have the settings as you describe but do not get an error message.

I believe that IIS uses IUSR_COMPUTERNAME as the account and that account has been given permission to write to the folder within security.

 

[sleipnir214]

Were the settings like that originally, or did you just now edit the file? If you edited the file just now, did you restart IIS afterward?



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