PHP on Windows 2003 Server -

Does anyone know how to REALLY get it to work? Anybody have a good resource that explains every single step?

 

It's very straight forward. A lot easier than getting .Net set up correctly

Download the Windows installer (.exe) from http://www.php.net/downloads.php. I'm running version 4 on my 2003 server, which works a treat.

Once you've run the install wizard, open IIS and go to "Web Server Extensions" for the server object and make sure the PHP status is "allowed ".

That's it. Upload a *.php file to one of your virtual directories and it should display the dynamic content when you browse to it.

This works a treat for adding an extra bit of functionality to a intranet site. Some things are easier in PHP than VBSCript - e-mail forms for example, so I find it very useful to have that available. However, if I was building a totally PHP internet site, I think I'd ditch IIS and go for Apache.

 

Thank you very much for the response. Unfortunately, I just could not get PHP to work with IIS. I followed the instructions to the T.

Some people says it works, others have trouble and claim that it just doens't work.

So, I trashed the server. Re-installed Winddows 2003 server, Apache, and PHP and now it works fine.

Thanks

 

Ok. back to running IIS with PHP. Success!