I tried setting up PHP4 with IIS on a Win2000 machine yesterday. I followed all instructions for IIS and am having no problem with that. However, I am having a problem with the PHP install. The website that the tells you to go to (http://php4win.de/) no longer exists. The book goes on to say that the file that site provides has all the extensions in it that we need for the book and that the install file from www.php.net does not. However, I have no choice but to use the file provided by the latter site.

I have successfully installed PHP4, but am having a problem with the extensions. I took off the comment for extension=php_gd.dll as the book told me to. and am getting the following error:

http://www.digitalepiphany2.bravehost.com/error.jpg

I also get the same error when I uncomment other extensions within the php.ini file. Please help.

First, about php4win.de:
  http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginnin...2002-06/46.asp

That said, on to your problem.

When you install extensions for PHP in windows, you need to make sure that the extension dll's are found by php.ini (look at the extension_dir setting), and that any supporting DLLs are in the system path. You can either add the dll directory to your current path, or just copy/move the support dll's into %WINDOWS%\system32.

The support dlls are in php\dlls. Examples include expat.dll, sablot.dll, iconv.dll, etc.

Extension dlls are in php\extensions. These dlls are of the form php_<extension>.dll.


Take care,

Nik
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