Hedir Review : Installing PHP5 in windows2000/IIS

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15240 Hedir Points

Installing PHP5 on windows 2000/IIS is easy ! Follow these steps to know how...

Check if your IIS is already installed and running...

a) Goto settings->control panel and open/remove programs, click the Components button to see if IIS is installed. If not then select IIS and clcikc details to see all the services are selected.

b) Open a browser and type http://localhost/iishelp, if you have installed IIS correctly you should see the IIS documentation page.

Download PHP5:

Goto http://www.php.net and download the php5 windows binary file. Unzip the file.

a) Create a folder called php5 on your hard drive (c:php5) and keep all the unzipped files there.

b) Copy the file php5td.dll under php5 to c:winntsystem32 folder.

c) Copy all the files with extension .dll under dlls folder to c:winntsystem32 folder.

d) Find the file named php.ini-dist , copy it to c:winnt, rename it to php.ini and open it in notepad to make the following changes:

change the extension_dir value to to the directory path in which the loadable extensions reside.

e.g extension_dir=C:php5extensions ;

Make changes in Web Site Properties:

a) Goto start->settings->control panel->administrative tools->internet service manager

b) Right click the default web site and select properties

c) Select ISAPI tab and click Add button

d) Create a new filter named "PHP"

e) Under executable browse to the directory where you have the file php5isapi.dll and select the complete path.

f) Next select Home Directory -> configuration

g) Choose the complete path to the file php5isapi.dll under Executable.

h) Choose .php under Extension

i) Save your changes

j) Restart the IIS

Testing installation:

a) Open notepad and write down these lines
<?php

echo "Its working Fellas !!";

?>

b) Save this file as "test.php" under C:inetpubwwwroot

c) Open a browser and type http://localhost/test.php

d)If you see this output -> "Its working Fellas!!" it means you have just successfully set up PHP5 under windows2000/IIS

Thats it !

Note: I have given the brief outlines here which should be enough
to get your installation going !

Dutch Boy · Guest 100 Hedir Points

I'm trying to get it to work with apache2, I prefer the program. The os is win 2000 server. I installed it and I get the message "temp. having problems with my Sql. Can you help please.

Thanks a bunch

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15240 Hedir Points

Hi Dutch Boy,

Welcome to hedir forums Smile

From your query it seems to be a database related problem rather than server or php related . You have not made it clear when you get this message. Give me some more specifics.

I will write about installation of PHP5,MySql with APACHE2 on windows2000 in my next post in this thread . Keep watching this thread !

Lakhya

zaheer · Guest 100 Hedir Points

This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This
means that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is
set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.
For more information as to why this behaviour exists, see the manual page for CGI security.
For more information about changing this behaviour or re-enabling this webserver,
consult the installation file that came with this distribution, or visit
the manual page.