[Xitami] Issues/questions with 2.5b5

[Scott Tyson]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:20:46 +1000
"Paul N Shortis" <Paul.N.Shortis@transport.qld.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> Scott,
> 
> The 'php returns a blank page' comment is a dead give away - this is usually
> because php.exe loads but is unable to load php4ts.dll. The most common solution
> is to put php.exe and php4ts.dll into the xitami directory. This appears however
> to be problematic with aliases. The solution for my problem was to place an
> entry in the  system path that points to the php directory instead of moving the
> php exe and dll. I also experimented with placing the dll in the winnt\system32
> directory.
> 
> I think this will solve your questions 1 & 2.

Odd that Xitami can find php.exe no problems when not using an alias (php
works great off my root directory).  Ok I'll try and add it to my path
statement.
> 
> If you wish to run Xitami with a particular account. Install Xitami as a
> service. Then open the services control applet and open the service editor and
> set the account name and password to run the service - this is standard windows
> NT/2000 stuff.
> 
Roger that is what I figured.  The fun part is hunting down all the failures
do to file access problems :)


> Best of luck
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Scott Tyson <scott@therubberroom.org> on 30/11/2001 02:50:51 AM
> 
> Please respond to xitami@lists.xitami.org
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> To:   Xitami <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
> cc:    (bcc: Paul N Shortis/Roads/QMR/Au)
> Subject:  [Xitami] Issues/questions with 2.5b5
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings -
> I'm in the process of migrating my own domain off if IIS/ASP/Access and onto
> Xitami/PHP/MySQL.  My server platform will remain win2k server.  So far I have
> all three
> working but I've hit some isues with Xitami that I have not found resolutions
> for.
> I cannot for the life of me get PHP to work in an aliased director. I have tried
> using
> straight php and I get blank pages returned.  I tried XiFusion and it generated
> the error message
> "Cannot spawn child process".  So my questions are:
> 1. Can Xitami support PHP using aliases.
> 2. Can Xitami support PHP using DNS based vitual hosting (I need to host 3
> domains on one IP address)
> 3. Recomendations on how to run Xitami so it is not running as the system
> account.  Just create a basic user like IIS does and give
> that user access to only my WWW directories?
> 
> Thanks for any help and sory if these are repeats.  I'm new to the list and I
> could not find a way to seach the archives for answers.
> 
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