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Ronnie Overby
Asked: 2009-06-11 07:03:22 +0800 CST

Problem running PHP on IIS6

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I have used the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta to install php on IIS6.

I tried this first on a test server with success.

When I did this on the production server and browse to a test php file, I see:

The page cannot be found

Is there anything I need to configure in IIS 6 to get this working?

windows-server-2003 php iis iis-6 fastcgi

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There are a number of things you need to check:

    • Have you setup the .php extension in IIS?
    • Is the PHP extension mapped to the PHP DLL?
    • Is the PHP web service extension setup?
    • Is the PHP web service extension allowed?

    This article shows the steps for setting up PHP manually, it may be worth following it through to check you have all steps completed.

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  2. If you are attempting to go to index.php by addressing the root of a folder (i.e. http://localhost/) and you are getting a 404, then you may need to add index.php to the list of default documents.

    If you are getting a 404 error trying to access a specific page (i.e. http://localhost/index.php), then there may be an issue with how you are attempting to access the page - not necessarily a problem with the php config in IIS.

    If I remember correctly, when php is not configured correctly, you would get a mime-type error which may attempt to save a copy of the page, but not a file not found error.

    Also, in IIS6, FastCGI needs to be installed (download it here) and enabled through the "add Windows components" tool.

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  3. I had the exact same problem which was due to manual ISAPI installs of old installations of php.

    The problem is just the configuration of "Default Web Site", click properties -> Home Directory -> Configuration.

    Scroll to .php and change the executable path to: C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll (previously this will have been C:\Program Files\PHP\php5isapi.dll)

    Click the Limit to: and type GET,HEAD,POST

    Done.

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