I don’t want to sound like and idiot but I am going to post anyway.

I have been working with PHP for several years both developing and maintaining a hosting environment and I have run into some issues that are freaking me out.

I currently have a environment running php 4.3.5 running on win 2003, this has been up and going since the rev came out, no issues no problems for the last several years.

I am upgrading the hardware as well as the php/mysql rev and this is the snag….

5.0 through the current install correctly (seems to) and after the install the info page will appear correctly but any other pages will get a 500 server error or some other crap. I have been going back and forth with variables such as cgi, ISAPI etc and the entire thing is just pissing me off.

The box is intel platform running 2003/IIS6/no patching as yet. This is the same as the current environment for the platform yet the install is just not working.

Any thoughts would be great……I am about ready to dump IIS for Apache although this is going to impact future ASP applications.

HELP.

Hi.

I've installed PHP & MySQL on Server 2003 (Microsoft Windows ADvanced Server) before and stuck with an older version of MySQL as I received similar issues and although I'm sure they're easy to fix for what the client wanted an older version was sufficient. Also, I moved the whole installation to a Windows XP Pro box later as the server is business critical and didn't want any issues at a later date relating to 3rd party software being installed.

Why did you all use Windows, when you could use Unix/Linux? IMO, Unix is much better and more secure.

newpctech,
I have no experience with IIS, but the most common reason for a 500 error is that the
PHP configuration is declared incorrectly. If you are using php.exe as the interpreter,
change it to php-cgi.exe. You also may need to increase the CGI Execution Timeout.
Another thing to check is that your ext directory has the correct path.

There are two things I can think of at the moment that you can try.
First check if short_open_tag is set to on. Also check register_globals.

I spent 4 days trying to get PHP 5 (5.2.2, 5.2.5) running on a Windows box, tried every "solution" that I could find NOTHING worked.
The error changed sometimes, but nothing allowed me to upgrade and run successfully.

Gone back to PHP 4.4.7, so it was an upgrade from 4.4.3 just not the one I wanted.
I'm going to try some earlier versions of PHP5 at some point next week. Apparently 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 ran OK on Windows with a bit of tweaking to the ISAPI settings.
So I'll start at 5.1.6 and take it from there.

I'll let you know if it was successful or not

Earlier releases are available at http://www.php.net/releases/ should anyone else want to test as well.