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PHP on Windows 2003 IIS 6 Displays 404 Page Not Found

After Installing PHP 5 using the Windows installer on Windows 2003 you may find that IIS displays a “Page Not Found” 404 error for every .php page. This is a perplexing error because is it not actually a real 404 error. The file is really there, but IIS is unable to process it based on [...]

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web.config error "Unrecognized attribute 'type'" for .NET 2.0

This applies to Windows Server 2003. This error can occur when you have .NET 1.0 and .NET 2.0 applications running on the same server. This particular error can occur when you haven’t selected .NET 2.0. in the application settings. Windows 2003 Uses Application Pools which can only support one version of the .NET framework at [...]

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Installing Perl Modules on MS Windows Servers

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 [...]

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Enabling SSL on IIS with a Self-Signed Cerfificate

If you’re a developer and you want to be able to use SSL on your development machine, or you are just doing some in-house development, you can install an SSL certificate on your IIS server without obtaining it from VeriSign, Thawte or others. The plus side is that you can enable this right away for [...]

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