note 44633 deleted from faq.installation by aidan

Note Submitter: raisorsharp@hotmail.com ---- When I was installing PHP5 on IIS 6 I constantly got a 404 page cannot be found error. While reading some other comments I came across a post from jimo at mail dot azhsv dot com. He describes a solution for 4.3.3 which worked for 5.0 as well....... The procedure I used: 1.) INSTALL PHP 5.0 (having IIS 6 and all running) (I rebooted: still the 404 error) 2.) Performed the following - Start > Run > type in 'CMD' in box + <ENTER> - Browse to folder c:\windows\system32\ - Use 'cd..' <ENTER> to go up a folder until you are at the c:\ - Type 'cd windows' <ENTER> - Type 'cd system32' <ENTER> -* you will have prompt with c:\windows\system32\ 1. Execute the command: cscript iisext.vbs /AddFile c:\php\php.exe 1 php 0 php 2. Execute the command: cscript iisext.vbs /EnFile c:\php\php.exe 3. To check for correct execution of the above, 4. Execute the command: cscript IisExt.vbs /ListFile (the php extension should be listed) (I rebooted: still the 404 error) I installed php5 AGAIN (I rebooted: IT WORKED) Now I'm not sure if this is the RIGHT way to do it, but it worked for me.....hopefully it helps some other people as well!!!!, or someone can post a better solution then this one.