I'm a PHP newbie. I just installed a trial version of ExpressionEngine 1.2 on Windows 2000 Server, IIS5, running PHP 4.3.9 and MySQL 4.0.13. PHP is installed as an ISAPI module.

I'm able to access the control panel in EE just fine, but when I click on any of the links on my live blog page I'm getting open stream errors like the following:

Warning: Unknown(c:\inetpub\wwwroot\blogs\index.php\weblog\ first_entry\): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(c:\inetpub\wwwroot\blogs\index.php\weblog\ first_entry\): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\blogs\index.php\weblog\first_e ntry\' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php\pear') in Unknown on line 0

I ran the go-pear install and my PEAR directory is located at c:\php\pear and it is listed in the PHP.ini file . The above error seems to be a very common error accross PHP sites, since I got the same error message appearing on many sites when I did a Google search. What am I missing? Should Pear be listed in my PHP_info?

Appreciate any help/suggestions...

usally means either the file path is incorrect on the php line.

That or the file that you are trying to call from php is not in that directory or the permissions are not set for EVERYBODY to read it.
i had the same problem on my website. all the files were there and all the php include information was correct. me the security of the directory was set so only administrator could read/write/delete the files doh. see if it wset to everybody read access.

is there a space before "first_entry"?

Well I am having this problem right now with a site trying to install wordpress

1CF3, wow what a grave digger.

Sure he is...