kena1921 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 HiI need to develop a PHP web site that will be hosted on IIS. I have been trying to install PHP on an XP machine using the Windows Installer without success - I have concluded the answer may be to install manually. The 2 things I was wondering were..What is the best advice for manually installing PHP on IIS - I have looked at the PHP site but found the instructions not the easiest to follow.Secondly, I would prefer to run it locally on Apache as this seems to be a better option. However am I likely to encounter problems if I devlop the site on Apache and then have it running live on IIS?Many thanksKen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 If you use the installer it should configure PHP and IIS during installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kena1921 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 I have tried using the installer a couple of times with no success - PHP files aren't recognised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kena1921 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 I have now uninstalled everything (inc IIS) and reinstalled. When I try to run a PHP file I now get a dialogue box asking me where I wish to save the file. This is getting very frustrating!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I am not experienced with IIS. I prefer Apache. Your site should still work fine when you upload it. The thing that will "make or brake" your site when you upload it is PHPs configuration. When developing your site configure PHP on your dev box to that of your hosts - just run phpinfo to compare php's settings on both boxes.I will write you a full guide to installing Apache2.2 and PHP5.2 on windows for you here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witch Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I am running PHP with XP and IIS on my home machine. Can you you tell me what you did to configure your IIS. There are certain portions for example the properties of your default website under documents requires the index.php to be added as well as the php.ini file may need a few minor tweaks to work with IIS. I take it you have IISV5.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witch Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 By the way are you using to create web pages, a blogg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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