GOING CRAZY OVER PHP INSTALLATION!!!

[Theros]

Gawd, this installation of PHP is driving me nuts! Ive tried for hours... with no Avail.. I've first searched Kirupa forums, not much help there. Then tried Php.net stuff, found the toturials on installing it on Windows 2k with IIS5.0. But, I did all of what the tuts say and it still doesnt work? Can somebody go through all the steps in CLEAR English so I can understand how to isntall it correctly? Thanks, all....

*EDIT* This is one of the resources I looked at (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php)

[fruityDJ]

why dont you install apache server..its light and free and works better with php.
have a look here :
http://www.wampserver.com
its an easy to use/install all in one package apache/mysql/php.

[Theros]

Yes, but I really dont want to switch from IIS unless its easy to and its much better than IIS

[Sinister Shadow]

Apache being used by roughly 80% of sites is a suggestion of it's capabilities ;)

I use XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) on my development machine so that I don't need to fiddle with config files and the like. It installs MySQL5, PHP5, Apache2 and a few additional things. I wouldn't use it on your server though, it's not secure for webhosting.

Edit: fruityDJ mentioned WAMP. I've heard of it but haven't used it so you might want to look at that too. It does a similar task to XAMPP.

[Theros]

Ok, I tried out XAMPP, it installed PHP and it worked, but I couldnt figure out how to access the web files from outside the server? I just couldnt find a documentation on that....

[Jeff Wheeler]

Make sure you're running apache on port 80, and then connect to the computer using it's IP address…

[Theros]

I tried, I port forwarded and all that crap, and tried the ip with port 80 on another comp, kept saying acces denied.... So i dunno whats wrong with it?

[Jeff Wheeler]

Disable your incoming firewall on port 80 ;)