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Had a hard day to MSI install 5.2.3 on WinXP with MySQL. I use a drive substitution (subst drive: path - in my case subst d: c:\drive_d) and installed PHP in D:\PHP - which in reality is C:\DRIVE_D\PHP. To make a long story short - only after (1) changing all substituted D:\ back to C:\DRIVE_D and (2) resolving all DOS short names to Win long names PHP started to work. The first one is clear - the substitution works only for the active console user - not for services or IUSR. For the second one I have no explanation, since DOS short names should work systemwide - maybe Win handles them correctly but PHP not ? BTW <?php phpinfo(); ?> was of tremendeous help Meiki ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 89.1.246.247 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/75615 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75615 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/75615 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php