note 96710 added to faq.installation

Here are my struggle to get PHP 5.2.12 working on Windows XP SP3, IIS 5.1 (Please note Win XP SP3 has issue of FastCGI) 1. Dowloaded installer and installed in C:\Program Files\PHP as ISAPI module ---->Did not work Added php5isapi.dll in ISAPI Filter and added the extension .php in Home Dir->Configuration (For every setting change restarted IIS on cmd->iisreset) ---->Did not work (And the Google was pointing to the Fast CGI issue; Don't know why microsoft has MS-FAST ! ) Uninstalled the PHP and cleaned up the folders, PATH environment variable & PHPRC, the IIS settings and registry entries and shut down(restart is different from shut down) the system to make it very clean 2. Reinstalled the PHP in C:\PHP as ISAPI and did the same as above in IIS (For every setting change restarted IIS on cmd->iisreset) ---->Did not work Uninstalled and cleaned up same as above and took a breath to make sure what I am doing wrong. Shutdown the system. 3. Unzipped the php-5.2.12-Win32.zip and did the same as above (this time manually PATH variable and security permission for the PHP folder and following settings) short_open_tag = On error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE display_errors = On doc_root = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot" extension_dir = "C:\PHP\ext" cgi.force_redirect = 0 ---->Did not work Uninstalled and cleaned up same as above Shutdown the system. 4. Downloaded Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and select the PHP+Fast CGI+Windows Cache for PHP extension and Web Deployment Tools restarted the system to take effect the settings ---->Did not work Uninstalled and cleaned up same as above Shutdown the system 5. Took the prev version of PHP php-5.2.4-Win32.zip unzip the folder and did the following changes: short_open_tag = On error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE display_errors = On doc_root = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot" extension_dir = "C:\PHP\ext" cgi.force_redirect = 0 set the security permission as IIS_machinename with full access to the C:\PHP folder ------->IT GOT WOKRING Hope people would be aware of php-5.2.12 and would love the php-5.2.4 ---- Server IP: 59.162.86.123 Probable Submitter: 203.145.173.2 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/96710 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96710 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/96710 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php