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Note Submitter: david at ellought dot demon dot co dot uk ---- Having just spent too many hours trying to get PHP 4.3.9 + PWS 4.0 + Win98 to work, I thought others might like to know the "feature" of PWS I've just discovered. When you add the .php registry entry to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Services\ w3svc\ parameters\ Script Map], the next time PWS is started, it reads this entry. Once it has done that, it doesn't matter what you do to the entry, it completely ignores you ! If you make an error in the setting the first time, that's it, you can never correct it ! If you want to change the directory that PHP is in, sorry, you can't ! Having read the setting once, it never looks at it again. You can even delete it, and it won't notice ! If you do want to change the value for .php, there is only one way to do it (that I have found). Uninstall and then reinstall PWS !!! And then make sure you set the .php correctly, first time, or you'll have to uninstall and reinstall it again ! In my case, the symptoms were HTTP 500 errors when I tried to browse to a PHP page, but I'm sure you could get other errors, depending on what you get wrong with this variable. David.