'The directory name is invalid'

anrver · Jun 2, 2003

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a PHP/MySQL environment. When I make a preview of my pages, wich include some PHP code, I receive the following message : The directory name is invalid.

The configuration is as follow :
Windows XP Pro
IIS 5.1 installed
MySQL 4.0 installed and active
PHP 4 installed
My SQL ODBC driver installed (My HTML editor needs a ODBC connection to retrieve the database structure)

I already checked the following :

In the Internet Information Service Administration Tool:
Application Mapping : .php is mapped to the correct executable.

In the PHP.ini file :
extension_dir is pointing to the correct directory.

I guess there must be a problem with the PHP interpreter. Can anybody help me on this?
Thanks.

DRJ478 · Jun 2, 2003

Please post more details about the error message.

What do you do before it happens?
Who/what reports the error?

anrver · Jun 3, 2003

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I use Namo 5.0 as HTML editor. I've created a .php page with following code :

<html>
<head>
<title>No title</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Namo WebEditor v5.0">
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red">
<p> </p>
<?php
$link = mysql_connect("ANRPC370", "root", "&quot

or die("No connection: " . mysql_error());
print ("Connected&quot

;

mysql_close($link);
?>
</body>
</html>

When I launch Internet Explorer from within my editor to see a preview then I receive the following message :
'The directory name is invalid.' This message is generated in a HTML page, so no popup window from XP.

I'm a total novice is this mather so probably I overlooked something very basic.
My intention is to simulate a MySQL server on my PC so that I can devellop some database applications. After that, I intend to publish them my webspace.

I hope this will help you.
Kind Regards

skiflyer · Jun 3, 2003

If you view source do you see any of your plain HTML tags?

Namely

<html>
<head>
<title>No title</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Namo WebEditor v5.0">
....

If you don't, I'd suggest the problem is in your configuration of your HTML editor.

...

I don't know anything about Namo, but there's a chance it won't do PHP displays for you, you may need to actually put your php files into a directory your IIS server can serve up, then point to it that way.

-Rob

IAmALlama · Jul 15, 2003

There is an easy fix to this. the iis server cannot read your

http://wwwroot.

go to your

http://wwwroot

directory and right click on it. go to properties and select the security tab. click add and then scroll down to the person named: IUSR_(computer name). Click add and then ok. set the permissions you want and click ok. this should fix everything for you.

anrver · Jul 22, 2003

Just back from holydays.

Placing my files into a IIS directory did solve the problem indeed.

Many thanks for your help

Erik

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