Posted by Steve on 03/06/07 19:12

"shimmyshack" <matt.farey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| On 6 Mar, 18:22, "LiquidEyes" <n...@liquideyes.net> wrote:
| > > 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.
|
|
|
| permissions isnt your issue if your on home
| in fact im not even sure if home can be cajolled into setting
| permissions as I think the option is not there.
| Apache runs as SYSTEM thats right, no worries. dlls dont need to
| create temporary files generally, so you're ok there.
| The "read only" flag is partially greyed - thats normal, they arent
| read only however - its just the way xp shows the setting.

yes, follow up on the module suggestion(s). however, permissions *could* be
an issue...and usually *is*. i'm not sure that he is using apache. if he's
running iis, he should give wrx permissions to the IUSR_<computer name here>
on his php root path and set subfolders to inherit those permissions. the
IUSR_ in a system user account, and while iis may well farm off the php
script to the php.exe, php does *not* get full system access. IUSR_ is
limited in what it can do...you have to specifically grant it permissions
for certain activities.

it's just a thought. i've had plenty a headache configuring windows server
that stemmed from this issue.

cheers.

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