Help with Installing PHP 4.3.9 !!

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[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Belicoso_Fino

am completely new to vBulletin. I am not a newbie to Win2003 Server, Linux, Apache, IIS, etc, etc. But I have never installed PHP.

So...I took it at face value when the vBulletin site said it suppoeted PHP 4.x and up, and installed PHP 5.0.2. Installed the SAPI version (D:\PHP\php5isapi.dll). I got it working in no time and verified operation by writing a little PHP script:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

...which executed with no problems. However, whenever I went to execute the ...\install\install.php script, I got blank pages i the browser.

So....I paid for installation. Correspended with Martin a few times only to learn that vB does not support PHP5. He says to install PHP 4. Okaaaaay. Back to the drawing board.

So....I've been trying to install PHP 4.3.9 all morning. No luck. Trying the same installation method (manual) as before but I get 404 errors every time I try to run my test script or the install script. I have re-read and triple-checked EVERYTHING.

Would anyone be willing to help a poor schlub out? I'm out of ideas, patience, and places to turn, so I thought I'd post here.

Helluva first post, I know, but I'm trying to save what little I have of my hair left.

Larry

PS - Thanks in advance for your generosity and patience with me.
PPS - I'm kinda desperate, as I need to ship this server to Phoenix (from TX) NLT Tuesday. I'm not above offering finincial incentives fro quick help. :surprised:
PPPS - RDP access available

You to make sure you have mysql support enabled, which requires uncommenting the line that deals with it and copying some files.

However php4 is simplier to install, follow the instructions, edit the files and restart your webserver

[Xenon]

As Zak said, most of the time the problem with php5 is running MySQL and allow php to access it.

On a windows server it's quite complicated, as you manually have to move some dll files into the System directory.
Really no idea what the php devs did, but it was quite hard to get it up running again.

All i can say from my own experience it's not a vBulletin problem, as i am running a vb3.03 on my php5 localhost without problems (of course just since i got php beeing able to corespond with mysql again..)