Re: PHP4 & ISS Problem

There is a general issue with IIS (and maybe other web servers) that if an error occurs in a cgi executable or an ISAPI module, there is often no way for that error to 'escape' to the outside world. Instead, all the user gets to know is that a 500 - Internal server error occurred. Luckily, with php, we can run the executable on the command line, where we will get to see any error messages, and then we can go about fixing them. At the command line, if you CD to the directory containing php.exe and then type php -q -i, you will get the output of phpinfo() on screen (a long stream of html) and then php will exit. From what you said, I suspect that you will see an error message at the end of the phpinfo output, but if not, scroll up and check out the beginning (you may have to configure your command window to have a decent height in the layout tab of it's properties dialogue box - mine is set to 5000). The odds are that the error message you get will be trivial - a bad php.ini setting or some module not found - that kind of thing. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org