Re: odd behavior

On Thu, January 19, 2006 11:53 am, Jay Blanchard wrote: > I had PHP installed on a web server, and all was working OK, save for > one > small thing. phpinfo() indicated that the path to the php.ini was > c:\WINNT, > which it was not. So I copy the file from the c:\php directory to the > c:\winnt directory and restart IIS. Now, when I click a link to take > me to a > directory with an index.php I get a 404, not found error. If I refresh > the > page shows up just fine. So I remove the ini page, start and stop the > IIS > server, click the link, and no problem...the page is delivered just > fine. > > Has anyone experienced this behavior before, and how do I fix that > damned > path to the ini? TIA! How you fix the path to php.ini is what you did in the first place, except you shouldn't leave behind the c:\php\php.ini to confuse yourself some other day. MOVE the file to c:\winnt where PHP thinks it must be. Other Options: Re-compile PHP from scratch to choose a different path for php.ini Use that new-fangled Apache directive to tell Apache where to find php.ini -- This implies dumping IIS and using Apache, which you should do anyway :-) Meanwhile, back at the ranch, your question SHOULD be: How do I get IIS to not return 404 for the first hit on a URL, then the correct content on subsequent hits? Standard Windows Debugging 101: #1 Re-boot the whole machine and pray. #2 Re-install the entire OS and all software. #3 Switch to Linux. The first two steps are what Microsoft always tells me to do. :-) Sorry. Best I can do for you... PS I suspect that in this case, some sort of brain-dead IIS/DNS/MS-OS cache is screwing you up and a re-boot (#1) actually WILL solve the problem. This is, however, only a guess. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm