[RESOLVED] PHP in harmony with ASP on Windows XP

[richy]

I currently have ASP running through IIS on Windows XP. I'm looking at getting PHP running as well. I attempted this to run with IIS, which worked for about a day, but then trying to get MySQL running with it I ran into errors and now get 500 errors whenever I try and run any PHP. I've been informed I would be better to install apache and that this would work much better and be easier once installed. Is this the case, or am I better at attempting to get it running with IIS?

Would Apache and IIS run ok side by side?

[penagate]

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I have written a tutorial on getting PHP 5 to run under IIS 5. See the sticky thread in this (PHP) section.
I haven't really tried using MySQL under that setup, but I can't see why the web server would affect how it works. It is more a matter of getting the php_mysql (or whatever data access library you use) extension to work.

If you still want to, you can run both Apache and IIS, as long as they are listening on different ports.

[richy]

Thanks for that. I eventually gave up last night after following about 3 other tutorials and getting the same result when trying to run php. Luckily I found Wamp, and that seems to have done the trick and is working very well.

Thanks for the nudge towards that tutorial anyway.