#23907 [Com]: Need additional installation step for IIS 6.0 / Windows Server 2003

ID: 23907 Comment by: unknown at simplemachines dot org Reported By: bryn at mrpath dot com Status: Critical Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows Server 2003 PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: I can confirm that: - this affects Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 only. - this is needed for both CGI or ISAPI mode. - this is currently not in the documentation. A tutorial I wrote earlier this year covers many of the major steps involved, although it hasn't been updated for PHP 5 yet (it was written while PHP 5 was still in beta.) The relevant section of said tutorial can be found here: http://unknown.network32.net/tutorial.basic-server#configure.php.iis The Macromedia tutorial linked to in one of the previous comments does *not* describe the necessary information either. However, some comments to the documentation page do. Any other problems are not related to this bug; notably, the whole CGI issue *is* properly documented already (although ISAPI is more efficient...) Thanks, -[Unknown] Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-09-07 19:57:18] joel at preacherboy dot net I have my moments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-09-06 20:55:10] m_deheneffe at hotmail dot com you're a genius... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-09-01 17:53:38] joel at preacherboy dot net I couldn't for the life of me get IIS 5.1 and PHP 5 in CGI mode to work. I ignored all previous PHP 4 related instructions as I figured them to be irrelevant. After reading Philip's comments about the Macromedia tutorial, I finally decided using their method for CGI mode just might work. All it took to get IIS 5.1 and PHP 5 to work in CGI mode was the following lines, never referenced in the official documentation as what you *must* do: cgi.force_redirect = 0 // Default must be 1 when commented out. cgi.redirect_status_env = ENV_VAR_NAME Now that I'm not running in ISAPI mode, all of my scripts aren't open handles of dllhost.exe. dllhost.exe is no longer crashing every time the system is restarted. Yay! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-22 20:55:33] philip@php.net The IIS docs need help, someone who uses IIS should really update these docs. Marking as critical. The PHP installer should also look into being updated for this (although IMHO nobody should use the PHP installer!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-21 05:52:48] yo at momma dot org This need to go on the install.txt file. BIG TIME. Searching google for ""HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. PHP IIS 2003"" and this article came up 7th. Does not bode well for noobs (A turn off, as in why bother) as well as experienced developers (A serious irritant, as in "Oh great, another speed bump and another hour or 2 of my time"). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/23907 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23907&edit=1