Installing Perl Modules on MS Windows Servers (the Easy Way) This article explains a bit about the process of installing Perl modules and why the typical instructions found in a module’s ReadMe file do not work on Windows servers. If you want to skip all of the details and just get to the installation part, [...]
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Installing PHP To Run on Both IIS and Apache on Windows
Installing PHP to run on Windows through IIS is pretty simple because there is an installation wizard that does everything for you. But, those of us who also have Apache running for development need to have Apache process PHP pages too. This is a walkthrough to get both running. This will run PHP in CGI [...]
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded
When PHP is processing a file upload and you receive the error message “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded” it is because the script has timed out. I was working on an application where this was occuring during a file upload. The entire file would be uploaded, then the error would be [...]
PHP intermittent blank page
There is a problem with IE and PHP applications is certain instances where an intermittent blank page appears instead of the expected content. This seems to relate to an earlier bug reported by Microsoft with IE 6 where the content length was reported as 0 during POST requests. This occured when browsing sites running UNIX/Apache [...]
PHP directory name is invalid
Certain PHP applications return the error “directory name is invalid” when installed on a windows server. This seems to be an issue with IIS and certain PHP versions. A workaround is to open the IIS Admin panel, go to the MIME configuration for .php files and make sure that “Check that file exists” is enabled. [...]
