IIS crashs when ASP and PHP

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a serious problem here. Our Webmaster is running a IIS with ASP. I develop on php and asked him to install php on the IIS. He told me, that IIS always crashed when he tried to install php. Unfortunately he wasn't more specific to me, but he told me that if I find resources which gives him:

a) a step by step install instruction for php on a IIS with ASP allready on it
or
b) a discription to avoid the crash

he will give it a try.

I'm pretty sorry, because this is an overall dumb posting, but if anyone has some experience with that M$ crap and php please let me know......

Thank you very much in advance.

Matthias "LoCal" Schonder

[Anon]

I would say that your "webmaster" is full of it and doesn't want you to use PHP. I am running IIS with ASP and PHP. On the PHP side I am not really running a site that is as complex as my ASP based site but I have had no one single problem.

Also, I am only using PHP as the php.exe not the ISAPI.

[Anon]

I downloaded my php installer exe and executed it which installed on IIS.

then I used the readme file and performed the 2-3 basic steps there after the installation

I restarted the iis then php was working zippy

[Anon]

I've experienced problems with PHP and IIS (not crashing IIS, but when using PHP ISAPI it can screw up pretty easily) but the CGI version I've had no problems with, works great, and I believe the php installer shiv mentioned will only install the CGI version anyway so it shouldn't be a problem.

Keyvan

[mithril]

Unfortunately, the installer doesn't have any additional extension modules with it though. If you need them, you'll have to get your "webmaster" to donwload the zip package and install those as well. On the plus side, that's as simple as grabbing the package, extracting the dll's to the extensions directory (I'm assuming the installer does create an extensions directory, then editing php.ini to load what you need. Of course, you could tell him to remove ASP and go with something a bit faster, less bloated, which requires less code, etc, etc, etc...... <evil laugh>HAHAHHAHAHAHA</evil laugh>. Nah.... probably wouldn't work:)

geoff

[ddomains]

I have had the saem problem even after using the manula install option for PHP and IIS. I found that when I ran even the <? phpinfo(); ?> file it crashed the whole system when using the php4isapi.dll when I switched to the php.exe it ran fine. but I just found this site with instructions for Win 2K and IIS 5.0. I think the problem lies in that the file extension needs to be changed to .dll not exe.

Anyway here is the URL http://www.umesd.k12.or.us/php/win32install.html

[Anon]

My problem is not so much IIS crashing but asp stop working when ever i run an odbc call in php. I was wondering if anyone has ever run into this before?

Kevin