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you need to set up the mime type. the installer tends to fail to associate .php files with the engine.<br />
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<a href="http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps?page=0%2C2" rel="ugc">http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps?page=0%2C2</a><br />
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you need to set up the mime type. the installer tends to fail to associate .php files with the engine.

http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps?page=0%2C2 [http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps?page=0%2C2]

page 3 of this document specifically

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I checked the MIME type for .php and it was set to c:\windows\system32\inetsr<wbr />v\fcgiext.<wbr />dll. I changed it to c:\Program Files\PHP\php5.dll. But the same problem persisted? Do I have to restart or should I be using a different file for the MIME type?
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I checked the MIME type for .php and it was set to c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll. I changed it to c:\Program Files\PHP\php5.dll. But the same problem persisted? Do I have to restart or should I be using a different file for the MIME type?

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I changed it to point to php.exe, set the permissions to scripts only and restarted IIS but it is still trying to download the index.php file? Any other ideas?
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I changed it to point to php.exe, set the permissions to scripts only and restarted IIS but it is still trying to download the index.php file? Any other ideas?

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OOPS! Looks like I had permission set wrong....it is working now....thanks!
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OOPS! Looks like I had permission set wrong....it is working now....thanks!

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I installed PHP 5.2.14 using Microsoft's Web Platform feature on my WIndows XP development machine. I am running IIS5.1 Everytime I try to browse a PHP page using localhost the file just wants to download, it won't display. Please help!
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I installed PHP 5.2.14 using Microsoft's Web Platform feature on my WIndows XP development machine. I am running IIS5.1 Everytime I try to browse a PHP page using localhost the file just wants to download, it won't display. Please help!

Problem installing PHP on IIS5.1

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.