PHP5 not running under IIS 6

Question

I have a Windows Server 2003 VPS running IIS 6 and .NET Framework 4 and PHP. I have a client that needs to run a custom PHP application. But their files wouldn't run as PHP script. I run Wordpress on other websites fine.

Please Help me.

Answer 1

Firstly, could you provide some info on what actually happens when you try execute their PHP scripts ? Without more info this is all i can suggest:

Add a file called "test.php" to a site containing the following

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

when you try access the file via http://yourdomain/location/to/test.php

does it show you exactly what is in the file ?

you need to add php5.dll extention to IIS

does it ask you to download the file ?

same as above.

does it print out a phpinfo page ?

if the phpinfo page prints out correctly, check if your clients php files use short open tags eg.

<? phpinfo(); ?>

if so you may just need to enable that in your php.ini

I hope this is clear and helps.

Dylan.