PHP Problems With IIS 5.0 running vBulletin

**nuno** · Fri 12 Apr '02, 1:21pm

replace it with
[code]
;include_path='.;c:\php'
[/code]

**thecheesehunter** · Fri 12 Apr '02, 1:40pm

Comment it out?

You think commenting it out will work? I thought that was required.

**nuno** · Fri 12 Apr '02, 1:43pm

Re: Comment it out?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by thecheesehunter [/i]
[B]You think commenting it out will work?[/B][/QUOTE]
yes
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by thecheesehunter [/i]
I thought that was required. [/B][/QUOTE]
no

**thecheesehunter** · Sat 13 Apr '02, 11:53am

Commenting it out didn't work

Ok I tried commenting it out but it didn't work. When I commented out that line, the include_path variable got set to c:\php4\pear by default. I now get the error:

Warning: Failed opening 'c:\local\path\to\vBulletin\admin\install.php' for inclusion (include_path='c:\php4\pear') in Unknown on line 0

Any ideas now?

**nuno** · Sat 13 Apr '02, 12:56pm

hmm
try this
edit [b][i]php.ini[/i][/b] and replace
[code]
include_path='c:\php4\pear'
[/code]
with
[code]
include_path='c:\path\to\php4isapi.dll'
[/code]

**thecheesehunter** · Sun 14 Apr '02, 5:50pm

Similar Error...

Ok I tried that and now I get this error:

Warning: Failed opening 'c:\local\path\to\vBulletin\admin\install.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php;c:\winnt\system32\php4isapi.dll') in Unknown on line 0

Any ideas now?

**Pingu** · Mon 15 Apr '02, 3:46am

No matter what you put in, everything fails on c:\php\whatever

So, maybe a rights thing?

Give the Web Anonymous Users Read & Execute, List Folders Contents and Read rights to c:\php and see if that helps

**thecheesehunter** · Mon 15 Apr '02, 1:17pm

Permissions didn't fix it

I verified that those permissions were set but it did not fix the problem. I still get the same error.

**Pingu** · Tue 16 Apr '02, 8:18am

1 - Download the "PHP 4.1.2 zip package" from php.net's Windows Binaries
2 - Extract to a directory, like: c:\php
3 - Copy php4ts.dll and php4ts.lib to c:\winnt\system32
4 - Copy php.ini-dist to c:\winnt and rename it to php.ini (overwrite the old one)
5 - Open c:\winnt\php.ini in a text editor and change extension_dir to: extension_dir="c:\php\extensions"
Do not make any other changes. If this works, then change one thing at a time later, and see where it fails. You need to restart IIS after each change.
6 - Start Internet Services Manager
7 - Rightclick your "computername" icon > Properties > click the Edit button in the Master Properties box to edit the WWW Service properties.
8 - Go to the 'Home Directory' tab > click the 'Configuration' button > Click the 'Add' button to add an Application Mapping > Click 'Browse' and enter the path to php4isapi.dll (c:\php\sapi\php4isapi.dll)
Use .php as the extension, All verbs, and check the Script engine checkbox.
9 - Give execute permissions on the homedirectory of the website in Internet Services Manager, rightclick the website and choose Properties
10 - Click the 'Home Directory' tab > Set 'Execute Permissions' to 'scripts only'
11 - Restart IIS.
12 - create a file called phpinfo.php in your website and put this code in:
<? phpinfo(); ?>
13 - Save the file, aim your browser to the phpinfo.php file on your site and see what happens

This is the minimum needed for php. Hope it helps...

**thecheesehunter** · Thu 18 Apr '02, 10:53am

Nothing will work

I am still getting the same error. This is really frustrating because nothing seems to work. I am completely out of ideas...

**Pingu** · Thu 18 Apr '02, 2:06pm

Yep, running out of ideas.
One thing you might try though is completely uninstall php, restart IIS, and then install the cgi version (the self installer) from php.net. Once that works, you might try other stuff