Php on home computer

[smckittr]

i had forgotten to uncomment that line. did that reset iis and reloaded the page. no change

[sde]

1. make sure there is no semi colon at the beginning of that cgi.force_redirect line

2. did you modify the permission for the C:\PHP5 directory so that the IUSR_... could read/execute it?

3. you restarted IIS after saving the modified php.ini correct?

[sde]

also, you did not use the PHP installer right? if so, or if you have tried to install PHP previously, make sure there is NO php.ini file in the C:\WINDOWS directory.

if there was, delete it and restart IIS. the only php.ini file should be in C:\PHP5

[smckittr]

everything seems right
no semicolon before the cgi.force_redirect line.
IUSR_SCOTT has permission
iis restarted
and i didn't use the installer

what about the redirect_status cgi variable that the output mentions?.
heres the code for the only redirect_status variable i could find in php.ini

; if cgi.force_redirect is turned on, and you are not running under Apache or Netscape
; (iPlanet) web servers, you MAY need to set an environment variable name that PHP
; will look for to know it is OK to continue execution.  Setting this variable MAY
; cause security issues, KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING FIRST.
; cgi.redirect_status_env = ;

sounds related

[smckittr]

Got it!!!!
dunno how but it works
thanks very much for all your help.
i greatly appreciate it
now on to mysql
Scott

[sde]

maybe the page was cached in the browser? i dunno. i set my browsers to get current content everytime i visit a page.

lemme know how the mysql stuff goes. once it is installed, uncommented in the php.ini file, and iis is restarted, .. you should see a 'mysql' section in the phpinfo.php page.

[smckittr]

it worked great.
thanks for all your help
Scott

[sde]

cool beans. glad i could help. now i should make this into an article now that i know the instructions work on a machine that isn't my own =)

[smckittr]

I just figured out what changed so that the php thing worked.
I have to first access http://localhost which goes to index.htm
then i can type in the address bar phpinfo.php
but i can only view a php page if i have just now viewed index.htm, so i can't go from phpinfo.php to test.php
any suggestions?
THanks
Scott

[sde]

that is a pretty confusing explanation, but i'll take a shot at it with some more questions.

before i answer though, where you were previously should have absolutely nothing to do with the next php page.

even though the logic makes no sense, i will go with it and ask you the following questions so you might be able to isolate the problem.

you say you can go from index.htm to phpinfo.php. can you go from index.htm to test.php?

- if yes, then wow, i am stumped because index.htm has nothing to do with either of the other files.

- if no, then i think there is something wrong with test.php.

are you sure test.php works? do you have 'display_errors=on' in the php.ini config?

i dont' have a php config to look at, but the other php config setting for errors that i recommend i think is error_reporting.

make sure you report ALL ~ notices (or seomthing like that). the most common way to report errors is have php report all errors except notices.

i'm leaning towards maybe you have a parse error in test.php and the display_errors is just not on.

just some ideas.

[smckittr]

both php.php and test.php work if i start at index.htm
so i would type http://localhost in the address bar and load that page and then i would type http://localhost/phpinfo.php and it would work. if i just go from this forum thread to http://localhost/phpinfo.php it doesn't work.
I get the error 500 "Can't display page because of internal server error" page
i'll check display_errors and error_reporting
thanks
Scott