PHP 5 on IIS 6 giving 404 error and how to fix it
How hard can installing PHP on IIS on a Windows 2003 server be? It turns out that it can be very hard even if you follow every step-by-step in the world.I have spent the last two hours trying to get it to work, but despite my best efforts I kept getting a 404 error whenever I tried to browse a PHP page.
Here’s how I fixed it. It turns out that the installer configured IIS for using .php extension using the 8.3 file naming format (getting the dll to be named as pgp5is~1.dll). This was throwing things out of whack.
I simply edited this entry to Browse again to the actual path and saved that. This solved the problem.
Below is the screenshot:
This screen can be reached by going to “Home Directory” tab in web site properties, and then clicking on the configuration button.
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September 20th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Dude this worked for me.
i can’t believe this was it.
you are the man.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:16 am
amazing… works perfectly:)
September 28th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Thank god for you whoever the hell you are
April 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Thank You! You are the man!
February 19th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
You are deffinately the man. This has saved me so much work I can’t even tell you. I’m not a PHP guy. So this was a huge break through.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Thanks dude!
May 28th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Great stuff, fixed my issue! Thank you.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I am glad
August 29th, 2009 at 4:26 am
It’s in for me, but I still get the 404..