Posted by gabriel.salama on 11/13/06 16:09

Thanks for your answer sTony. I didn't have any older versions of PHP
because the machine I installed it on is brand new.

Anyway, I was finally able to make it work by simply uninstalling it
completely and re-installing it using the zipped version (I was using
the windows installer version). I followed the manual installation
steps from the PHP documentation and that seemed to do the trick.

Apparently the windows installer version does not do a good job of
installing everything that is actually necessary for PHP to run.

Regards!


sTony wrote:
> <gabriel.salama@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1163168929.474849.274710@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > I just installed PHP version 5.2 on my machine with this setup:
> >
> > - Windows XP Professional with SP2
> > - IIS 5.1
> >
> > I already added the necessary mapping to run PHP scripts but after many
> > hours of scratching my head and searching on the web, I cannot find a
> > simple solution to my problem. None of my php scripts work at all. They
> > ALL wait and wait and wait until after five minutes I get the following
> > error:
> >
> > CGI Timeout
> > The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing.
> > The server has deleted the process.
> >
> > The only answers I've found to this problem are to increase the timeout
> > limit!!!! What kind of a solution is that?????!!!!
> >
> > In any case, they all talk about version 4.x which is not my case. I'm
> > using version 5.2 and besides, there's no reason why any of my scripts
> > would have to run for so long. For example, I'm running the simplest
> > php script you can run and I still get the error:
> >
> > <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
> >
> > This is not the first time I install PHP on a machine but it is the
> > first time I come across this problem. Can anyone please help me?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> I've got no clue as to what you should do, but I will say that I doubt
> increasing your timeout would help. It seems likely that the problem lies
> elsewhere, since it will not even run a simple little "Hello World" script.
> Perhaps you have an older version of your php.ini leftover from an older
> installation, or something like that. Sorry I can't be of more help.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> sTony

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