Re: IISconfig

How to test this IISConfig thingy: First, a few more words on what the problem is. Some users (and it seems to be only a very small percentage) report that the php installer fails when configuring IIS (or PWS) on NT4 or above because an OCX control is not registered on the system. The OCX control is responsible for displaying the treeviewer of the IIS scriptmap nodes so the user can select which ones to map the various php file extensions into. The tree viewer is provided by either of two OCX controls, MSComCtl.ocx or ComCtl32.ocx. These are almost always to be found in the WINNT/System32 folder on real world machines, however they are not always registered. Cynic's modification to the software is to check whether one of the controls is registered, and if not, to register on or the other. To test whether this mod works, first we really need to find a system on which the original fails (and this can only sensibly be done on Win NT/2000 running IIS or PWS). I have tried to unregister the controls using regsvr32 /u comctl32.ocx and regsvr32 /u mscomctl.ocx however even with the things reportedly unregistered IISConfig still works ok. How to do the test: Download the old version which I've put at http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/IISConfig.exe Then from the command line, run "IISConfig.exe <path to your php.exe> .php" so for example, on my system this would be: iisconfig.exe f:\php\php4\php.exe .php If one or other of the OCX controls is already registered on your machine you should get a dialogue box showing a list of your IIS scriptmap nodes, and you should cancel out of the dialogue box so it doesn't mess up your IIS configuration. If however you get an error message to the effect that an OCX control is not registered then good - you can help us! Run the IISConfig.exe that Cynic posted at http://www.1st.cz/cynic/IISconfig.zip with the same command line arguments. You should hopefully get a message box informing you that the control has been registered, then the software should do it's stuff and display the scriptmap nodes. Cancel out of the dbox and let us know it worked! NB the software then unregisters the OCX again so that your system is left in the same state as it was previously. If you are an experienced VB hacker and can see a better way of doing all this stuff, please speak up as neither Cynic nor I are experts in the field (this is my first - and hopefully only - VB prog). Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org