Re: help needed with windows install part of the PHP manual

Hi Gabor, I have used PHP since the early days of PHP3 and I have never copied any files arround. I have only used php on Windows NT/2000/XP and there might be other needs on Windows 98/ME. On my development box I have the following directory structure: c:\php4 c:\php4\debug c:\php5 c:\php5\debug In each of these directories I keep all files related to the version of PHP. That includes all .exe, .dll and the php.ini file. I also keep any external library required for extension in the same folder (this is for extensions like PHP-GTK and Imagick etc.) PEAR is a little tricky as it requires pear.ini to be in %windir%! In the php.ini file I set extension_dir = ./ I use IIS for most of my work and I configure it with the folowing virtual directories all pointing to the same physical directory: /php4, script map: .php => c:\php4\php-cgi.exe /php4debug, script map: .php => c:\php4\debug\php-cgi.exe /php5, script map: .php => c:\php5\php-cgi.exe /php5isapi, script map: .php => c:\php5\php5isapi.dll /php5debug, script map: .php => c:\php5\debug\php-cgi.exe /php5fcgi, script map: .php => c:\php4\isapi_fcgi.dll It is not possible to configure IIS with more than one isapi/fcgi module. This way I can test the same php script with different versions of PHP without changing anything but the URL. This configuration also allows me to use both web based and PHP-GTK applications. I use the same configuration on the systems we ship to our customers. It's a touch screen computer with a PHP5 based application. - Frank > Hi Frank, Wez, and all! > > Wez promised us that he will help rewamp the Windows installation part, > but he does not reply to our mails. Our dilemma is the following: > > - the current Windows docs suggest users to copy files to the windows > and system32 folders > > - people (Daniel Convissor) report that it is possible to not do > this, but set PATH to include the PHP folder and the dlls > folder below the PHP folder (for PHP 4) + set PHPRC > > - others (Nuno Lopes) report that it does not work for PHP 5 > > - the PHP 5 package suspiciosly looks like if the dlls and sapi > folder was merged with the root folder just to support Daniel's > suggestion, or enable setup with even less configuration > (no PATH and no PHPRC setting required) <- just a hiphotesis > > Now we need someone with decent Windows PHP knowledge to help us clean > up the installation part. What do we need? > > - Simple manual installation instructions for PHP 4 on Windows > - Simple manual installation instructions for PHP 5 on Windows > - Instructions on how can you run them paralelly (both server > independent - ie. CLI, and server dependent - ie. Apache, etc). > > Wez said it is not required to copy files around neither for PHP 4 nor > for PHP5. Now we need exact instructions. > > Thanks, > Gabor Hojtsy - PHP Documentation Editor >