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I have PHP 5 installed under Windows 2003 and IIS 6. I'm installing a PHP application that creates and edits files on the server. I'm trying to understand how to configure NTFS on the directory it's going to be working with. Does PHP use a special user or is it still the IUSR account?
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I have PHP 5 installed under Windows 2003 and IIS 6. I'm installing a PHP application that creates and edits files on the server. I'm trying to understand how to configure NTFS on the directory it's going to be working with. Does PHP use a special user or is it still the IUSR account?

What user does a PHP process run under?

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.