Posted by LiquidEyes on 03/06/07 18:22

> usually it's to do with directory/file permissions on windows servers.
> does
> IUSR_<computer name> have permissions to wrx the extension dir and the
> dll's?

Hmm interesting... thanks for the suggestion.

I don't really follow the bit about 'IUSR_<computer name>'.

I'm just running Windows XP Home and I'm the main (admin) user. I didn't set
up any special permissions for the PHP folder. I just unzipped the PHP
archive into my Program Files folder. I've just tried putting the PHP folder
somewhere else rather than Program Files, but it seems to make no
difference.

All folders on my hard drive seem to be read-only by default. Not only that,
but if you remove the read-only attribute, next time you look at the folder
properties again the read-only attribute has magically reappeared! I think
this is just the way Windows XP works (?)

The actual files in the 'dlls' and 'extensions' folders are not read-only. I
can't think of any reason why the DLLs shouldn't be able to create files
inside the extensions folder if they wanted to...? Presumably what you're
hinting at is that the extensions might need to create temporary files?
(which I suppose would explain why some extensions work and some don't...)

Returning to your suggestion regarding permissions: could it be that PHP
and/or its extensions have less privileges than I do as the user/admin? I've
checked Apache on the list of Windows services, and it is set to log on as
'local system', so I can't see any obvious reason why PHP should have
difficulties.

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