problem with activating PHP in ISS...

problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Miki Alliel -
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problem with activating PHP in ISS ...

I'm just installing moodle 1.6 beta but can't get throw the install.php file I get en error page:

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

I think the problem is in IIS

I installed the whole package of php 5.1.4

But can't fine the php5isapi.dll file for the isapi filter configuration in the IIS

So what can I do to activate php in my explorer or IIS???

MAYBE I need to do something else?

Please help

thanks

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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Patrick Karjala -
Did you install PHP 5 using the manual installer, or the Windows installer package?
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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Miki Alliel -
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Yes I did install PHP5.1.4 from the site http://www.php.net/downloads.php

first I  extracted the Complete Source Code zip file PHP 5.1.4 (tar.gz)

and then installed the  PHP 5.1.4 installer from Windows Binaries.

 

 why , what should I had done?

still can you see how can I fix my problem?

thanks

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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Patrick Karjala -
What I recommend doing is uninstalling php from your computer, then doing a search for any *.php files, or php*.* files and removing these as well.  Then re-install PHP from the Installer file.  Sometimes installing PHP manually, then installing via the Installer can cause issues.
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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Thomas Haynes -
The problem with the installer is that it installs php in cgi mode if I remember correctly. My understanding is that want ISAPI mode so it will scale.

I know that that authentication in phpESP (the program not the module) does not work correctly in cgi mode. When I did my install, I was looking for the ISAPI howto...

There are folks on the site with a lot more experience with php on iis than I have, and  Patrick is probably one of them. FWIW I have Moodle 1.6 running well on iis6, MySQL 5, and php5.1.4 with Zend Optimizer.
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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Thomas Haynes -

This howto was pretty helpful to me when I installed php5 on a Windows 2003 machine.

 http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Miki Alliel -
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thanks for the replys / before I'll do it again

I just don't understand  something

what do I need to do to install the whole php package' do I need to :

1) install the Installer of php  PHP 5.1.4 installer    ??

2)or the zip file PHP 5.1.4 (tar.gz) (and uzip it to c:\php)

3)  or the  two of them??

  and if the two of them so what first? is it matter?

please try to answer it's critical to continue the progress

thanks

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Re: problem with activating PHP in ISS...

by Thomas Haynes -
In the ISAPI install described in the link above, you do not use the installer. Unzip the downloaded file someplace. The instructions use c:\php
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