Manually installing PHP on IIS

[JoshT]

Ok, I've got IIS 5 mostly whipped into shape on Windows 2000 server, and I'm manually installing PHP from the binary zipped download - I made a D:\PHP folder and copied php4ts.dll and php4isapi.dll in there, and mapped *.php files to php4isapi.dll, and I can run phpinfo() thru IIS no problem so far.

So now I need to get a php.ini going to override the defaults. Can you get the php.ini file to work outside of the WINNT folder? - I really would like to put it in D:\PHP (for security and consolidation issues), but it doesn't seem to have any effect in there. Thanks.

[cpradio]

I have never installed it manual but what if you placed a shortcut called php.ini inside the WINNT folder that lead to the PHP/php.ini file?

Would that bypass it?

[scoutt]

it doesn't, the ini is suppose to go into the system32 folder on NT.

curious, is the php.exe in the d:\php folder as well?

if you can get phpinfo() to print out on the screen then where is the in i file at? maybe there is a setting in IIS that says where the ini file is. not sure as the server may only access one folder for all ini files.

[JoshT]

Originally posted by scoutt
it doesn't, the ini is suppose to go into the system32 folder on NT.

Yeah, but I don't want to put it there - I'm beating IIS into shape, I might as well beat on PHP.

Originally posted by scoutt
curious, is the php.exe in the d:\php folder as well?

Nope, only the two files I mentioned - I don't plan to run it as CGI, I don't think I need it.

Originally posted by scoutt
if you can get phpinfo() to print out on the screen then where is the in i file at? maybe there is a setting in IIS that says where the ini file is. not sure as the server may only access one folder for all ini files.

phpinfo thinks its in C:\WINNT, but I think that's a compile time default. It also thinks extension_dir is c:\php4 and session.save_path is /tmp. I wonder if I add D:\PHP to the path...

[scoutt]

oh I see, I am not use to the module type. it seems like you could put it anywhere. try that and let us know what happens.

[JoshT]

Adding D:\PHP to the path doesn't, so I put it in System32 and it works fine - I guess I probably could get it the way I want by patching and compiling the PHP source code, but...

I personally think that's a bad choice of file location for the php.ini. It is interesting that you can get php running by manually copying a mere two dlls and spend two seconds configuring IIS...