Installed PHP, cannot load other web pages on localhost

[firsttube]

I sucessfully installed PHP/FastCGI on my Windows XP SP3 system using IIS 5.1.  I did some testing with some php pages and they seemed to work fine.  When I went to check out my existing ASP pages, they did not load properly.  The browser loaded the html on the page, but did not allow CSS or any other includes.  I checked the permissions and all the permissions in wwwroot seemed to be reset.  I tried allowing all permissions to all users to no avail. I had to uninstall PHP and reinstall IIS 5.1.

 

I'd like to start learning PHP on my localhost, but not if it compromises my ability to view my other types of pages.  What could cause this?

[ManiacDan]

Did you check IIS's settings to see if it was still properly directing .asp files to the asp interpreter?  I haven't tried to use IIS in literally 13 years.

[firsttube]

ManiacDan, thanks for the quick reply.

 

I did check that asp files were being directed to the asp interpreter and they were.

[ManiacDan]

Oh I didn't read properly.  ASP core is being loaded, but includes aren't working at the document level.  Maybe your document root changed.  Check using something like firebug to see where exactly it's trying to fetch the files from.  Visit those files directly to see what errors you're getting.  It's possible that you "backed out" one directory so where you had "css/site.css" before maybe now you need "aspsite/css/site.css".

 

-Dan

[firsttube]

I will check that.

 

What I did notice was the security permissions on the files in wwwroot were somehow changed to deny read permission to the IUSR account.  How could the installation of PHP caused this?

When I changed the permissions to allow read access, these files could still not be displayed in a browser.