Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/23/05 04:39

On Sat, October 22, 2005 9:49 am, Tomás Liendo wrote:
> Hi, I have enough experience working with PHP on Windows XP over IIS,
> but
> now I need to work on Windows Server 2003, algo with IIS.
> I installed PHP (With the installer that I downloaded from
> www.php.net) but
> it doesn't work. When I try to see a PHP page I receive the following
> message:
>
> "The server can not found"
>
> What can I do?

That usually means you have the IP/domainname wrong.

If you are using 'localhost' try 127.0.0.1 instead, and if that works,
you just have to fix the "hosts" file that Windows doesn't provide by
default in some weird directory I'll never remember. info.com it.

If 127.0.0.1 is what you are using, try 'localhost' for fun.

If neither of those work, use the actual IP address of the machine.
Run the command "winipcfg" and it should tell you what the IP is in a
fancy window. Or, if not, because MS changed that this week,
"ipconfig" in an MS-DOS prompt, if it exists in Win2003, should do the
trick.

You can also use "ping" to figure out if the machine is there, unless
that's been turned off on the box.

Also try a different browser. IE often lies in its error messages.

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