THANKS JAY, YOU ARE A SAINT :) I commented out the doc_root and restart and it came alive :) Thank you all Tony "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC9270915A875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [snip] > thanks for your time. > i installed it as ISAPI > > can i ask if you have had IIS5 on win2k professional running php scripts > that is not under the \wwwroot ? > some how i getting to think it can't (?!) be done although it does work for > II6 win2003 server! > [/snip] > > I have IIS5 installed on W2K Pro running PHP scripts in virtual directories. > Try commenting the doc_root line in your php.ini and then restarting IIS. > This has been known to cause some problems with virtuals. Make sure that > php.ini can be read by everyone. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php