Re: Windows 2003 server and IIS 6

I personally always avoid the install for php, and I never let any installer touch my IIS config, as 9 times out of 10, they f**k it. I suggest googling this group. -- Louis Solomon www.SteelBytes.com "blulagoon" <blulagoon@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:42DD4835.56CFCCFA@hotmail.com... >I posted this on the Install newsgroup but got no response, so thought I > would try here as many Windows experts read this group. > > Does anyone have experience of installing either PHP 4.4 or PHP 5 in > this environment. > > I am quite experienced in writing PHP applications running under IIS 5, > MS SQL on XP boxes, but now have a project we need to run on one of our > 2003/IIS 6 machines. I've downloaded the installer, and selected IIS 6 > as the web server but I get an error saying script is incompatible with > W Script (or similar) then asking me if I want to make C script the > default for running Visual Basic scripts. We don't really want to do > this, as we run a lot of other stuff on this server written in VB. > > As a result, the auto configuration of IIS 6 doesn't happen, I've tried > it manually but failed dramatically, I so screwed IIS 6 it won't even > serve .htm pages anymore ........ > > Any help very much received > > Blu > > n.b. I do know that once I've got php working in the environment, I have > > to additonally sort the extensions for gd2 and MS SQL support.