Re: PHP installation with Windows 2000 Professional

On a standard 2000Pro install, when you add PWS, you can use the personal web manager to manage the web site. Unfortunately, PWM is a piece of garbage. What you want to try is this: Click start-->run Start a blank MMC by typing in MMC. Click OK. When open, click Console --> Add/Remove Snap-In Make sure the drop-down says Local Console. Click the Add button. A list of all installed snap-ins comes up. Scroll through for Internet Information Services. Click it once, then click Add. click Close. Click Close to close the add snap-in window. Now you can go to the properties of your web site, the home directory tab, configuration button to set up PHP. I did this on my own laptop. I have 2000Pro installed, with PWS installed. I set up PHP on it about 8 hours ago, so I know what you are having to do. IF it works for you, when you are done, click Console-->Save As to save the MMC console as your own IIS management tool. Hope this helps too. That should do it "Benjamin Sims" <b.sims@unesco.org> wrote in message news:01c601c12018$90c10f80$205d020a@B442... > Thank you for your advice. > I have successfully installed IIS from the Windows 2000 disk and can run it > successfully so that other PCs on our network can see my home page. However, > because I have Professional rather than normal I do not get the Internet > Services Manager even with IIS installed in my Administrative Tools folder. > I only have these icons: > > Component Services, Computer Management, Data Sources, Event Viewer, Local > Security Policy, Performance, Personal Web Manager, Server Extensions, > Services, Telnet Server Administration. > > I have looked at some Microsoft stuff which says that ISM is a snap-in for > the MMC but I do not know where to get the snap-in itself. > > Is there another way to access the properties? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Trembath" <robert@ishoptech.com> > To: "Benjamin Sims" <b.sims@unesco.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:20 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP installation with Windows 2000 Professional > > > > If your running Windows 2000, your running IIS 5.0 and it is not installed > > by default. You have to add it on as a windows componet. If you did this, > > you will find the IIS admin tool under the Administrative Tools folder in > > the control panel. Right click on the machine and set up the .php > extension > > to map to the php.exe file in the "WWW Master Properties". If you want to > > use mail() functions or extensions, make sure that you edit the php.ini > and > > give your web server account permissions to read and write to the sessions > > folders. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Robert > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Benjamin Sims" <b.sims@unesco.org> > > To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:43 AM > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP installation with Windows 2000 Professional > > > > > > Could anyone please help me with this problem? I am trying to install PHP > > and MySQL on my machine so that I can teach myself the language. I > followed > > the installation instructions for Windows 2000 using the automatic > installer > > and everything seemed to go fine. Until I got to the setting up of PHP > > itself. The instructions say that I need to open the Internet Services > > Manager in order to configure IIS4 to run PHP scripts. However, this > manager > > is not installed in Windows 2000 Pro. How can I convince my local server > to > > load the CGI binary as default so that when I test PHP it runs as normal? > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > > > > > > > > >