#16111 [Com]: IIS/CGI only gives "Security Alert! PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly."

ID: 16111 Comment by: shelley@databyte.com Reported By: ramac10@hotmail.com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: I read bug this bug and have changed my security setting on IIS and it makes no difference. I'm also using Zend, Smarty & ADODB. In addition I'm running on a pentium 4. I am having major problems in our login program and took the code out into a seperate test problem, and am still having the same redirect problems. I have been checking the Forums in the PHP community for the last week and find this seems to be a problem. I've tested the following code and it only will re-direct 1 time out of 5 or 6 times, of executing the code(with no code changes). It gives an error message the other times. Here is my test program: <? include_once("config.inc"); // Include files smarty etc. include_once("conn.inc"); // ADODB Connection session_start(); $sess_key=session_id(); $access = 'grant'; $page_name='page1.php'; $login='shelley'; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['saccess'] = $access; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['susername'] = 'Shelley Jones'; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['suserid'] = $login; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['suseris'] = 'Cust'; $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['spage'] = $page_name; header("Location:page2.php?K=".$sess_key."&L=".$login); flush(); exit; Error Msg recieving. CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: Shelley Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-18 05:48:22] derick@php.net Leaving this open as a doc problem. Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-18 05:39:30] michael@phpdevshed.com Ok .. Big Oops No BUG! Big lesson: This is to do with permission settings when installing php. Make sure your IIS user or everybody has permissions to access php and dlls in the php directory. Sorry guys :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-18 05:15:53] michael@phpdevshed.com >The problem was the php.exe was not reading the php.ini >in the system32 directory as per normal. Sorry I meant to say "winnt" folder and not "system32" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-18 04:05:09] mfischer@php.net It's c:\winnt\ as stated in http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php4/win32/install.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-18 03:59:42] michael@phpdevshed.com Ok people here is the problem. I had the same the problem on a newly built server Win2K SP2 with the latest PHP release. After hours of messing around to get this thing to work - I finally found the problem. The problem was the php.exe was not reading the php.ini in the system32 directory as per normal. I ran a phpinfo() from the commmand line (DOS Window) checked the "Configuration File (php.ini) Path" and surely enough the path was pointing to where my php scripts where located on the webserver doc root (e.g. c:/www/www.umm.com/doc/php.ini), so I moved the php.ini file to this folder - and guess what? it worked. I can't see anywhere where I can set the configuration file path - and i don't think its very wise to store php.ini in the web folder. Is this a bug? If so please can you fix this ASAP - this is truly a show-stopper! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/16111 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16111&edit=1