Phil, Here's what I've encountered so far. In all cases I've selected Advanced so I could see what was being set by default, and to set the SMTP stuff. * Install.txt still refers to InstallShield, but you're using Wise. Is this an oversight, or is the distributed copy of Install.txt back-level? * it appears that "php.ini-dist" is being installed rather than "php.ini-recommended". Is this by design? * on my system IIS4+ was initially selected. Does this indicate that it detected IIS5, or is it just a default value? * I then selected IIS6 (carelessly, as I have it running on a different box). Near the end of the install a system dialog was displayed complaining about missing file C:\WinNT\system32\iisext.vbs. After responding to the dialog, the install hung and had to be killed via task manager. The Install log never got created so I could not run the uninstall. I reran the install and selected IIS4 which completed normally. I next walked thru the manual steps in Install.txt to check what Install did (or didn't) do: - Install.txt recommends setting security on php.ini to give Everyone read access. Had to do this manually. Should the installer have done it? - The section on IIS/PWS covers registry settings and mentions a reg file, "pws-php5cgi.reg". This file was not present in either the installer or the full zip version. - the text refers to adding the ScriptMap string value; I assume the "example" value should refer to "php-cgi.exe" (not "php.exe")? Or, see next... - The zip distribution also includes "php-win.exe", which is the same size as "php.exe". Should the installer actually have used "php-win.exe" and renamed it to "php.exe"?? - In the discussion of using Internet Services Manager, there are two ways to get there: 1. If you go in thru the Computer Management MMC, you see Services and Applications, and within that, Internet Information Services. Here it lists the "Default Web Site", and the Properties selection in the context menu takes you directly to the Properties so ou can access the Home Directiry tab. 2. When you go in via Control Panel, it displays the named server, and after you click Properties in the context menu you then need to click Master Properties. From there you can access the Home Directory setting. I'm not sure whether master Properties is the right way to go; perhaps Install.txt could clarify this. Also, the Install.txt instructions had us set the mapping manually manually on the previous page. - In the next paragraph, the text refers to "Method Exclusions"; my dialog has "All verbs" When I got all done I created a test file in a test folder. I consistently got 404's. I checked the permissions. I checked the folder name. I checked everything three times. I put a test HTML file in the same folder and it found that fine. I ran a command lin etest and that worked file. I verified the php.ini location an settings. The problem turned out to be the recommended setting for "doc_root" in Install.txt. It says c:\inetpub, but it should be c:\inetpub\wwwroot. Not knowing how it was going to be used internally, I didn't spot this at first. At any rate, I'm up and running in about an hour, not having known squat about php to start with. Nice job! Thanks, ...Jeff "Phil Driscoll" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:200407170129.49875.phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Friday 16 July 2004 23:44, Jeff Hill wrote: > > > Also, are there plans for a windows installer version of php5? > I have prepared the installer for php5 which is being tested at the moment. > You can download a copy from > http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/php-5.0.0-installer.exe > > Let me know if you have any problems with it. > > Cheers > -- > Phil Driscoll -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
