Re: Re: Installation failed ! Please Help!

I've had PHP 3 to 4.01 and now 4.06 running under NT4 SP6a and now with W2K & IIS 5. From my experience, the %s %s is a requirement of IIS (not PHP). This according to Microsoft rules (apparently %s %s is CASE SENSITIVE): http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/2/25.ASP The %s %s has to do with script mappings within IIS. The closest i've found to an explanation is: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q190/0/11.asp apparently the "%s %s" are not necessary for ISAPI extensions, as seen at: http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/confeat/cgiis4.asp I believe that IIS passes the script name to php.exe with the first %s. I think IIS replaces the first %s with the script name. From the second article, I suppose that if the %s is changed to %S, the name passed to php.exe would be UPPERCASE. Can anyone verify this? Apparently, the second %s is used by IIS to pass any additional parameters to the script. Like running php.exe from the command line, that would be "php script1.php parameters". I think IIS requires the %s's to emulate that behavior. I know that PHP runs fine without these, but I haven't verified if the filename of the script passed to php.exe is upper or lower case when the %s %s is dropped. I'll have to do some testing and post the results here. Another MS page worth looking at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/miglamp.asp Who on his sane mind would drop Linux in favor of Win2K and IIS5 (with all the bugs it has, and those yet to be discovered)? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/lintowin.asp "Phil Driscoll" <phil@dialsolutions.co.uk> wrote in message news:E15XPt3-000ACq-0W@anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net... > On Thursday 16 August 2001 4:45 pm, Powell, Jim (EER) wrote: > > > > Second, make the application extensions point to php.exe (you > > > don't need the > > > %s %s stuff). > > > > This I have to disagree with. Without the %s %s, you are rolling dice as > > to whether the page will work or not. I never had this problem with Apache > > under win32, but I have with IIS. I would definitely leave them in there. > > I'll have to strongly disagree with your disagreement ;) > > -- > Phil Driscoll