Installing PHP onto IIS

[Frinavale]

I'm starting to really go crazy with this.

I've downloaded PHP 5.2.11.
I unzipped it into C:\PHP\php5211\
I copied the php.ini (recommended) file to c:\windows\
I made sure that the php.ini file was renamed so that it's "php.ini"
I edited the php.ini file to include the extensions etc that I need
In IIS7 I installed the php5isapi.dll
I edited the Script Handlers to point to the php5isapi.dll and made sure that it is allowed to be executed

I even changed the system environment's path to include C:\PHP\php5211\

I cannot get PHP to run.
I have a test script on the server right now (<?php phpinfo(); ?>) to test with but whenever I try to run it I get a 404 error. I also have an index.html file on the server that has "hi" in it...I can access it fine.

So PHP's not running.

But there's one other problem, the w3wp.exe (the worker process) keeps crashing whenever the php5isapi is activated (if I disallow it I don't see this problem).

I even tried installing PHP 5.3.0 but didn't get very far with it because it seems to be missing some key components....

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to work?

Thanks!

-Frinny

[Dheeraj Joshi]

Is your test script file is in document root??????

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

[Markus]

Hold on - I'll draw CodeGecko's attention to this thread - I know he's successfully installed PHP on his IIS server.

[JamieHowarth0]

I've already spent about 8 hours helping Frinny in the evenings using remote desktop :-)
We've isolated it down - PHP5 on IIS7 runs in ISAPI mode, which is fine.
The problem is that the PHP5 ISAPI crashes, which then kills the application pool worker process, when PHP tries to connect to MySQL.

Funnily enough, Frinny's looking at installing Joomla... wanna deter her Markus? :-D

codegecko

[Frinavale]

It's definitely the ISAPI that crashes the worker process. You were right, it's not MySQL.

Everything works fine as long as that ISAPI isn't being used....last night it was even crashing the ASP.NET website's worker process. I removed it from that website and everything worked fine again.

I tried removing the ASP.NET stuff from the (supposed to be) PHP site thinking that there might be some sort of conflict but it still just crashes.

I'm not sure what is going on with PHP 5.30....it doesn't even have an ISAPI and it's missing the encryption/hashing stuff in the php.ini file.

Maybe I'll go one step backwards instead....

[JamieHowarth0]

I've thought about switching to FastCGI mode instead - you'll have performance problems compared to the ISAPI but at least it might just work. Drop me a line on Skype when you hit home this evening and we'll walk it through (I'll put up a tutorial on it afterwards).

[Frinavale]

I'm not going to be able to get online until late my time (early your time...)
How do you configure the Fast CGI?
I'll give it a try tonight.

Thanks for all your help

-Frinny

[JamieHowarth0]

Remove the Handler Mapping and add a new one for *.php to map to the FastCGI handler (which I think is php-cgi.exe but not sure - check the Readme in the install directory for installation instructions on IIS).

[Frinavale]

Thanks :)
I'll check it out tonight. I really want to get this up by the end of the week...
I have other stuff to work on!

[Atli]

Hey.
Your PC doesn't happen to be running a 64 bit Windows, does it?

IIS7 application pools running in 64 bit mode will only apply 32 bit ISAPI modules to 32 bit "enabled" Application Pools.
Try locating the application pool your site is running under, go into the advanced settings and set the "Enable 32-Bit Applications" to true.

For some reason this is disabled by default.

[Frinavale]

Yeah I learned my lesson on trying to run 64bit servers a while ago.
The FastCGI seems to have fixed the problem with php (along with reinstalling php again...) Now I have other things to debug.

Thanks for your help :)