Re: php4, windows 98/ME, and pws4/apache.

Hi Phil, thanks for the tips... tough day for the Yorkshire lads at St. James', eh? anyway, just wanted to give you some info. My machine was just rebuilt with a fresh Win 98 2nd edition about 3 weeks ago - with not many programs installed at all since then. And, Moriarty's problem was ME, mine was 98 as stated. I don't know what was causing the "HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error" or if thats what others that you describe were getting also. I know that the install documentation was VERY SPARSE for Win 98 install and subsequent testing to see what works. Well, under PWS and after reading the KBase, I went to the EasyInstaller for 4.0.3, but that doesn't really work for me. I was still left with Server Error 500s. Its a bit confusing because the EasyInstall docs refer to PHP.exe instead of the newer ISAPI dll, so a bit confusing when trying to debug. Under the pulldown "Apache - Install", the directions are for CGI, not ISAPI. I have since switched to Apache/Win32 because in trying to get all this working with PWS 4.0, one of the suggestions was to deinstall everything and start over. I did that, but now my PWS will not reinstall. It gets a GPF when trying to register the Microsoft Transaction Server. I tried it multiple times and read MS kbase crap but to no avail. So, I've taken the path of least resistance and gone to apache, but with basically the same results. Just an hour ago, I still got HTTP 500s with the 4.0.3 from EasyInstaller. (Well, after enough times through the installs, some things start making more sense. I remember when I 1st installed FISHCART-PHP. The install doc was DAMN confusing - but after doing it three times it was more clear and a 4th install could be done very easily.) So, I've blown off using the EasyInstaller and have rebooted, cleaned, uninstalled, etc and freshly loaded 4.0.4. Set it up for the DLL and edited the PHP.INI. BTW, I did check and found I DID NOT have a bunch of scriptmaps inthe registry... in fact after the EasyInstaller was removed, the w3svc section wasn't even there. On 4.0.4, I put my path in the .reg file and manually applied it. ************** Here's a bit of a thorn in my side - At least in the easy installer for 4.0.3, he gave you a damn program to test the installation with. (of course, it disappeared when I de-installed his version.) Just imagine a newbie with the 4.0.4 version and no bloody program to even test with - bollocks! OK, now when I run a simple program, I get valid HTML output (so PHP is working now), but then this: APACHE caused an invalid page fault in module PHP4TS.DLL at 0177:008e49da. I only have one copy of that file in my PATH, in Windows/System. Its the Dec 20 version, 984k. It doesn't make the apache window shut down, nor does it log an error message, so I guess I'm still back at square one. It put this ALERT in the log - mind the time - i refreshed my browser window 3 times. [Tue Dec 26 23:24:43 2000] [alert] Apache.exe: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName [Tue Dec 26 23:24:44 2000] [alert] Apache.exe: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName [Tue Dec 26 23:24:45 2000] [alert] Apache.exe: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName Jaymer (the Geordie) > There have been a few folks over the last couple of weeks with Win98/PWS > problems and today you two with ME/pws. > In general the win98 people have got things going by either messing around > until things worked, or reinstalling PWS. > > The question is, what is wrong in the first place - if we can find that out, > we might be able to do something about it. Certainly people seem to have the > same problem whether installing manually or using the installer (not > surprisingly, since the installer does what it says in the instructions!). > > I don't have Win 95, 98 or ME to test on, although when I first wrote the > installer, I visited all my friends with such machines, and then installed > PWS and PHP. In every case, everything worked fine first time. The only > difference I can see between my tests and your setups is that I was working > with a brand new fresh installation of PWS. > > Is there some 'baggage' it picks up in its lifetime - e.g. lots of different > 'scriptmap' nodes in the registry which override the scriptmap node that you > (or the installer) set up in the root scripmap? > > The more information you can give us, the more reliable we will get these > installations! > > Cheers > -- > Phil Driscoll