PHP 5

[marinelife]

SMF Version: SMF 1.1 RC2
anyone have a step by step guide for PHP 5 like the one for PHP 4 for installing it on Windows Server 2003 with IIS6, when I install it the way I did PHP 4 the forum does not load and my phpinfo page is blank

[Oldiesmann]

www.php.net/install.windows.manual

[marinelife]

thanks for the link but I still get a blank page when I do what they say, for some reason it just does not like PHP 5

[Oldiesmann]

Edit your phpinfo.php and add this before the call to phpinfo():

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error_reporting(E_ALL);

That will make PHP display any errors that are generated, and should help fix the problem. I am not familiar with IIS, so that's about all the help I can give you.

[kegobeer]

Did you follow all of the IIS specific information?

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php

I had PHP 5 running on Server 2003 successfully.  Most likely you just missed a simple step.

Also, check out this site (Google is your friend  ) :

http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

[marinelife]

ok I will set the site for some downtime and try the error test, I did not un; some of the things peterguy.com has. I will have to try them odd that it would be different than with PHP 4

[kegobeer]

It's not any surprise.  I would expect a milestone release (version 5) to be different than version 4, just like 4 was very different from 3.

Always research how to install PHP (or IIS, or MySQL, or anything else) before undertaking the task.  Never upgrade a production box until you have worked out all the snags on a test box.

[marinelife]

wish I could do it on a test box, Production unit is not bad to test on when I have to, I have been researching and all I find on installing it is the same and the instructions have not worked for me

[marinelife]

Well I have to give up now, none of the above steps have worked, thanks for the help but for some reason my Server just does not like PHP5

[marinelife]

ok finally got it but every now and then I get this
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 77BAD9DE
and I can not send any PMs, I am not sure which setting it is that I need to change.

[marinelife]

Here is what the error log shows
http://www.westernohioreef.com/forum/index.php?topic=2216.45;topicseen 
2: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
File: [no active file]

[marinelife]

The problems is Due to a bug in PHP 5.1.2 that has issues with IIS6, the Fix is to download and install 5.1.3RC2