setting up local php

[Neko]

Hi,

I wanted to learn php, and installed php the manual way (editing php.ini and adding the directory to the windows path).

I've also installed IIS to my computer and it kind of works: http://localroot does display my default webpage I put in the wwwroot folder. However, the server doesn't work with php, it doesn't know how to open the file.

I did check my php installation, running an action script with phpcode in it, and that worked. So, does anyone have a clue what I am missing?

1. IIS = 5.1
2. PHP = 5.1.2
3. I'm trying to do the isapi version of php for iis, not the cgi (does it matter?).

Well, I'm kind of clueless. Can somebody tell me what might work, and maybe php itself isn't installed correctly?

edit:
I'm using windows xp pro edition,

the install file says I need to change execute permissions to 'script only'. Then I need to press 'configure' button, but when I do that, nothing happens.

And:

[elmuerte]

You want the isapi version.
I would use Apache and not IIS. I had to set up IIS once and it was a real pain.
Or simply install a WAMP bundle (Apache + MySQL + PHP)

[Neko]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

You want the isapi version.
I would use Apache and not IIS. I had to set up IIS once and it was a real pain.
Or simply install a WAMP bundle (Apache + MySQL + PHP)

ok, thanks, that'll be an option if this doesn't work.

A friend of mine screamed when I told I'm trying to use iis, and he said: use linux man!


ps: there's one more weird things:
they say I need to give a user permission to read the php ini file (the IUSR_machine) but even in Local security policy, I have no clue how to do that.

[Neko]

I got me a Wamp, and it seems to be up and running. How very simple!

The problem I got with iis is that I somehow do not seem to have the option to change the read settings on a single folder, so that it's mainuser, can actually use the php.ini

windows should have this option if you use ntfs, which I do..but maybe it has more to do with me being on a router on a homenetwork..somehow I couldn't change local readpermissions.

Jesse

[SebZ]

I don't use Wamp, because I like to configure the long and hard way to learn about some new stuff to make it easier to install on Windows PCs (Like at school with all the laptops! )

With linux, I just find the easy way. Like with Ubuntu, sudo apt-get apache2

[elmuerte]

Well, setting up a WAMP install from scratch is still much easier than setting up IIS.