Installing PHP3 or PHP4 under WindowsNT
as CGI for Netscape Enterprise Server
or for iPlanet

1. Copy the php files on your server
2. Edit php.ini-dist and rename php.ini-dist to php.ini
3. Make a file association under Windows NT
4. Test the 1st step

1. Introduction : shell-CGI directory or shell-CGI as Filetype ?
2. Specifying shell-CGI as Filetype
3. Test the 2nd step

1. The PHP site
2. The Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's guide
   (see Extending your server with programs [programs.html])

1. Copy the php files on your server


• Get the php zip file www.php.net (choose for example PHP4.0.4 or PHP3.0.18)
• Copy the php files under a directory (for example : d:\php4)
  (be careful don't use c:\Program Files\php\ because of the space between Program and Files
2. Edit php.ini-dist
• rename php.ini-dist to php.ini
• Edit php.ini : Indicate in which directory you have copied youre php files.

  (extension_dir = d:\php4\extensions ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.)

• copy php.ini in youre windows directory (c:\winnt)
3. Make a file association under Windows NT
• In a DOS Window (do not copy this two lines in a batch file! because of  %1), type

  assoc .php=PHPScript

  ftype PHPScript=d:\php4\php.exe %1 %*

4. Test the 1st step
1. Create a C:\test.php file with a single line like

   <? echo("Nothing to write"); ?>

2. Create a C:\test.bat file with 2 lines

   test.php

   pause

3. double-clic on test.bat
4. If you see something like

   PHP4.0.4		PHP3.0.18
   X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3		Content type: text/html
   Content-type: text/html	OR
   		Nothing to write
   Nothing to write

   then the NT association works!!

1. shell-CGI directory or shell-CGI as Filetype?
2. Specifying shell-CGI as Filetype
1. Due to a bug of the Nestcape/iPlanet administration console,
   you have to create a dummy shell-cgi directory (for ex:/dummy maps c:/temp)
   Remove it just after, (it will create 4 lines in obj.conf)
   If you don't do that you will get (no way to service request in the netscape error log)
2. First Activate CGI as a file type
   From the Server Manager of NES 3.6.x, choose Programs|CGI File Type and Set the Radio Group to 'YES'
   Click here for screenshot
3. From the Server Manager of NES 3.6.x, choose Server Preferences|MIME Types.
4. On the MIME Types page, add a new MIME type.
   Set the Type field to type, and the content type to magnus-internal/shellcgi
   In the File Suffix field, enter php Click here for screenshot
3. Test the 2nd step
1. Put the test.php file in the document root of your server
   
2. Then type http://server/test.php
If you can see "nothing to write" in your browser then it works!

1. An other How-to
2. The PHP documentation
3. Download The Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's guide
   (see Extending your server with programs [programs.html])
   or iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 4.1 Administrator's Guide