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How do I install PHP4 on Windows 98 using Personal Web Server (PWS)?

How do I install PHP4 on Windows 98 using Personal Web Server (PWS)?

How do I install PWS, Perl, and PHP on Windows 98 using Personal Web Server (PWS)?

How to install ftp server in Win98 ???

Mar 28th, 2008 17:46
ha mo, Harwant Grewal, John Lim, Dave Fischer, Barry Poon,

There is also a free Windows EXE installer for PHP available at 
http://php.weblogs.com/easywindows 
This installer automates 99% of the tasks below for IIS and PWS. Perl 
is not installed. Tested on Win95/98, WinNT (SP5), and Win2000. 
-- John Lim 
=================================================================
A walkthrough for installation of PWS, Perl, and PHP4 on a Win98 SE 
machine.
Copyright (c) 2000 David J. Fischer - david@fischer-net.com
***** Preface ****************************************************
This was written for myself, in case I ever have to reinstall all of 
this stuff. But I also like to give something to the community that 
provides such wonderful, free software. Like the little drummer boy, I 
don't have much, but I will offer what I can. This, then, is my gift to 
all the other newbies who, like me, don't know jack about server side 
processing, Perl or PHP. This is quite long, but I think it is very 
clear and direct.
This information is accurate to the best of my knowledge, but I cannot 
guarantee that it won't destroy your computer and all your files, 
especially since you will be modifying the registry. As I say later, 
backup your registry before starting. You may also want to do a backup 
of your files too, since registry editing can be a dangerous thing. 
That said, the first time I tried to install PHP4, I screwed things up 
and my computer crashed on boot until I booted in safe mode, which 
completed properly. Then I restarted, and that fixed things. After 
that, no real problems. But, your mileage may vary.
If you find this helpful please email and let me know.
If you find any errors, please notify me so I can correct them.
If you find something confusing, tell me and I'll try and clarify it.
Sincerely,
Dave Fischer
***** System Configuration ***************************************
Windows 98 SE (Win98 SE), x86, Win32
Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS)
Perl, CGI (Build 616)
PHP (PHP4)
***** Preparation ************************************************
First, back up your registry
	Start->Run->regedit
		Registry->Export Registry File
			Export range = All
			Save as type Registration Files (*.reg)
Now, uninstall PWS, Perl, PHP if you previously installed any of them 
and are having problems. This is to avoid possible weird conflicts. 
After uninstalling and rebooting as needed, search and remove from the 
registry all references to php, pl, cgi, perl that relate to file 
types, program behavior; don't worry about shortcuts, favorites, and 
file menu defaults. Searching the registry can be slow.
Restart in DOS mode. Run scanreg /fix to make sure everything is in 
order; this will take several minutes. Reboot, and back up the registry 
again, under a different name. If you're really paranoid, copy both 
registry backups onto a physically different harddrive, CD, Zip disk, 
etc.
***** PWS Installation *******************************************
Download mtssetup.exe from Microsoft.
Copy all files from D:\add-ons\pws, where D: is your Win98 CD, to a 
temp file on your hard-drive. 
Run mtssetup.exe to extract the Mtssetup.dll file into the pws temp 
directory; confirm that you want to overwrite the former Mtssetup.dll 
file.
Run setup.exe
Choose your configuration; I did custom, and added the ASP docs, and 
removed the Frontpage extensions.
Set your root publishing directory. PWS makes this the Home virtual 
directory. It places the scripts, iissamples, and I think webpub 
folders one level above the Home directory.
Example: on my computer, I renamed My Documents to Fischer, and my web 
design directory looks like:
C:\
	Fischer\
		WebDesign\
			fischer_dj\
			WC-Javascript\
			WC-Perl\
			WC-PHP\
I set fischer_dj as the root publishing directory. the scripts etc 
files were placed in the WebDesign folder.
After installation and subsequent reboot, bring up the Personal Web 
Server Setup program (from your Start menu or the icon tray). *DO NOT* 
go to Advanced yet! 
Choose either the Publish or Web Site options, it doesn't matter at 
this point, and go through the default web page install. The page may 
not display correctly or the browser may report errors. This seems to 
be associated with not using the default install root publish 
directory. It's not a problem
Now you can go to the Advanced options. It's time for a bit of advance 
planning. Create directories on your hard-drive for the Perl and PHP 
installations. I prefer my programs to be in the Program Files folder, 
so I create
C:\Program Files\Perl
C:\Program Files\PHP
In the PWS Advanced Options, select Home, then click Add. Set the alias 
to Perl, and set the directory to be the Perl folder you created. All 
three access settings must be checked: Read, Execute, Scripts. Click 
Home again, and make a PHP virtual directory, again with all three 
access privileges enabled. Finally, since fischer_dj, my site 
prototype, is home, which is under Web Design, I'd like a way to access 
all my web design stuff. So I edit the WEBPUB virtual folder and set 
the directory to 
C:\Fischer\WebDesign
Check the "Allow Directory Browsing" option. I prefer un-
checking "Enable Default Document", but it's a preference thing. When 
checked, if any of the listed files are found, they are automatically 
loaded. That's handy for a web-site, but it prevents you from seeing 
the directory directly, which can be a bother for testing and 
prototyping.
Exit PWS (don't worry, it just hides it)
Now, we'll make our DNS substitute:
Load C:\Windows\HOSTS.SAM into a text editor, and save it as "HOSTS"--
make sure there is no .txt or other suffix. This has the default entry 
for localhost, which references the Home virtual directory. You can add 
other Domain Name entries, if you wish, which also will reference Home. 
I am running an internal server. It's not connected to the 'net, but it 
is networked with my apt-mate's computer, so I added the following 
entries:
169.254.0.1 tacogato			# my computer name; use 
internal-only IP address
169.254.0.1 shoutingman.com	# I can alias multiple names to the 
same IP address
169.254.0.2 ryan				# alias my roomie's 
computer
These are necessary for him to see me; localhost always references your 
computer, from his computer localhost would be his system, not mine. 
Now, he can go to http://tacogato and see my web stuff.
Place a copy of this file in C:\WINDOWS on every computer on your 
intranet that will access your server.
Let's test it now.
Load a browser, and go to the URL http://localhost
If it can't find it, reboot. I'm not sure if the HOSTS file is read 
dynamically or at boot.
After a reboot, localhost and any other aliases to your computer should 
work fine. If you're on an intranet, you should also be able to use 
your aliases to see your server directory.
Another simple way to see if your server is really serving, is with 
dynamic frames. This is a method of passing information between pages 
using the URL followed by a "?" with the information following. It 
looks like this
http://www.mydomain.com?a=doc1.html?b=doc2.html?name=fischer
This is processed server side, and won't work on a PC without server 
access.
An example is at:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/frames/examples.h
tml
You can download the code for example 1 (view and save as index.html 
and then view source on the frames and save as document_a.html, 
document_b.html, document_c.html, document_d.html. Place them all in 
your Home folder, and then open the URL 
http://localhost/index.html
	then change it to
http://localhost/index.html?
a=document_d.html&b=document_c.html&c=document_b.html?d=document_a.html
All four frames should change. If you get an error, either you're 
trying to load the file from a folder instead of through the server, 
e.g. C:\mywebstuff\index.html?... instead of 
http://localhost/index.html?...;  or your server is not running 
properly.
Once you've seen that it works, reboot (you can't go wrong with a 
reboot).
***** Perl Installation ******************************************
This is how I installed ActivePerl, Build 616.
Download 
InstMsi.exe
ActivePerl-5.6.0.616-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.msi (or the current 
version)
Run InstMsi.exe to create the MSI installer. Then you can run the 
ActivePerl msi file. 
Choose Custom install. Set the install directory to be the Perl 
directory you made earlier. Then click every install option and choose 
the "Entire feature will be installed on local hard-drive" option in 
the pop-up menu. Do this for all six options. Installation takes 
several minutes. Select Finish when complete. The readme file has never 
appeared after my installations, but it's not a problem.
Reboot
Open a DOS window. Enter "path" to check the path variable. There 
should be at least one line for the bin directory of the Perl install. 
If not, then run sysedit to modify the autoexec.bat.
Start->Run->sysedit
At the end of the SET PATH= statement, add the location of your Perl 
bin folder, e.g. (I also added the lib folder too, as recommended by 
the Perl docs.
;c:\progra~1\perl\bin;c:\progra~1\perl\lib
Reboot (sigh)
Open a DOS window. Go to Perl/eg/ and enter
perl example.pl
It should output
Hello from ActivePerl!
Congratulations! You've got the basic interpreter running. Time for the 
server big guns. From the documentation, it seemed best to use the 
ISAPI dll for processing perl/cgi scripts via the web server. That's 
what I describe here.
You need to tell the server how to execute a perl code. It's really 
simple. Just create a file named "Perl.reg" and enter the following 
text exactly, except for the start & end designators:
***** start file: Perl.reg *****
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\S
cript Map]
".pl"="C:\\Program Files\\Perl\\bin\\PerlIS.dll"
".cgi"="C:\\Program Files\\Perl\\bin\\PerlIS.dll"
***** end file: Perl.reg *****
Change the extensions according to your needs, and the directory to 
suit your installation. You can have more or less extensions, one per 
line. Just don't add extra returns or spaces between the lines and be 
sure to keep the double back-slashes (\\). Save the Perl.reg file, then 
run it. Confirm that you want to modify your registry.
Now those extensions will be associated with the scripts for the 
server. To test this, bring up a browser and go to URL
http://localhost/perl/eg/IE3Samples/index.htm
If you set up the Perl virtual directory during PWS installation, it 
will load the PerlScript Samples Library page. Otherwise, first make a 
Perl virtual directory as described in the PWS directions.
Follow the links to test the perl script processing. It worked for me 
without a reboot. If nothing happens or an error is given, try a 
reboot. The Registry is voodoo and may not be fully reread until a 
reboot.
Then go to 
http://localhost/perl/eg/Core/cgi/index.html
This is the examples of CGI files. Try these out. This will test the 
association of .cgi with the Perl ISAPI module. If none of them work, 
especially the first couple, and you haven't rebooted since adding the 
Perl registry keys, reboot now. (I had to reboot here to get this to 
work.) If you have rebooted since modifying the registry, then 
something is not right. Check the keys to make sure they have the right 
path for the dll; make sure you typed the file extensions correctly; 
make sure you are running the cgi's through the server and not via a 
file load, i.e. C:\Perl\eg\.. bad, http://localhost/perl/eg... good.
If all that is working, then Perl is installed!
***** PHP Installation *******************************************
This is the install process for PHP4. I used php-4.0.1pl2-Win32.zip. 
The documentation claims that you need the updated dcom95.exe from 
microsoft. On win 98, dcom95.exe won't run, so bother getting it. There 
is a dcom98.exe, but PHP4 runs both with and without it, in my 
experience (Win 98SE).
Unzip the file and copy all the files to your PHP directory. Rename:
php.ini-dist to php.ini
Open it in a text editor. 
Search for the string doc_root and make sure it is not set to any 
value. 
Search for extension_dir and set its value to "c:\progra~1\PHP", or 
whatever your PHP directory is. Use the quotes. I've read that you 
don't need the quotes, or that you can use long filenames. I chose to 
play it safe, and follow the example set by the .ini file.
Search for brows_cap and delete the semi-colon (;) before it to 
uncomment it.
The various lines should now look like:
doc_root = ; the root of the php pages, used only if nonempty
extension_dir = "c:\progra~1\PHP" ; directory in which the loadable 
extensions (modules) reside
browscap = "c:\windows\system\inetsrv\browscap.ini"
Move the php.ini file to C:\WINDOWS\
Move the php4ts.dll & msvcrt.dll files to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\. If there 
is already a msvcrt.dll, you don't need to replace it.
Now you need to tell the server what file extensions to associate with 
PHP. Create a file PHP.reg, enter the following text (except the 
start/end designations), save, and run it to add the keys to the 
Registry, as in the Perl installation.
***** start file: PHP.reg *****
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\S
cript Map]
".php"="C:\\Program Files\\PHP\\php4isapi.dll"
".phtml"="C:\\Program Files\\PHP\\php4isapi.dll"
***** end file: PHP.reg *****
Reboot (things might work now, but I doubt it.)
Time for a test. Enter the following code into a text editor and save 
it as
test.html
test.php
test.phtml (or whatever other file extensions you associated with PHP).
***** start file: test.html, .php, .phtml *****
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Example</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		Hello, I'm not a script!</P>
		<script language="php"> 
			echo("Hi, I'm a PHP script!");
		</script>
	</body>
</html>
***** end file: test.html, .php, .phtml *****
Place all the files in your PHP install directory. The go to the URLs
http://localhost/php/test.html
http://localhost/php/test.php
http://localhost/php/test.phtml
If you set up the PHP virtual directory as described in the PWS 
installation, you will load the test file and execute the php code. The 
output will look like:
Hello, I'm not a script!
Hi, I'm a PHP script!
for the .php and .phtml files. Only the 'not a script' text will appear 
for the .html file. If the scripts don't work, make sure you've got 
Execute privilege set in PWS for the folder the files are in; make sure 
you're browsing via the server (http://) and not the file directory 
(C:\My Documents); make sure the registry keys were set correctly.
If it worked, congratulations, you've installed PHP!
I now recommend rebooting (yes, again) and then testing everything 
again. (Perl and PHP files).
***** ASP Test ***************************************************
While you're at it, you might as well test Active Server Pages (ASP). 
This example comes from the WSP documentation. In the Contents tree, go 
to Lesson 1 in:
Microsoft Personal Web Server/Web Applications/ASP Tutorial/Creating 
ASP Pages
Or, create a new file, named test.asp, enter the following code (except 
the start/end designators), and save it in a directory for which you've 
specified execute privilege in PWS. Then load it in the browser, i.e. 
http://localhost/asp/test.asp
***** start file: test.asp *****
<%@ LANGUAGE = "JScript" %>
<HTML>
<BODY> 
<% for (i = 3; i <=7;  i++) { %> 
<FONT SIZE=<% = i %>> 
Hello World!<BR>
 </FONT>
<% } %>
</BODY>
</HTML>
***** end file: test.asp *****
If it works, it prints the line "Hello World!" five times with 
increasing font size.
***** File type association **************************************
It's all working. So what more could you ask for? I like to have cut 
little icons for the various filetypes, and I really like to be able to 
right-click Open With... to load all these files in my HTML editor. 
Here's the easy way to do that:
Open a folder on the screen and bring up the file type associate panel:
View->Folder Options...->File Types
***** .pl *****
New Type
Change Icon: C:\PROGRA~1\PERL\BIN\PERL.EXE (yellow dot)
Description of type: Perl File
Associated extension: .pl
Content Type (MIME): application/x-perl
Default Extension: .pl
Actions: New: 
	Action: &Open
	Application: C:\PROGRA~1\PERL\BIN\PERL.EXE "%1" %*
	OK
Actions: New: 
	Action: Open with Arachnophilia
	Application: "C:\Program Files\Arachnophilia\arach.exe" "%1"
	OK
OK
***** .cgi *****
New Type
Change Icon: C:\PROGRA~1\PERL\BIN\PERL.EXE (yellow dot)
Description of type: Perl File
Associated extension: .pl
Content Type (MIME): application/x-perl
Default Extension: .pl
Actions: New: 
	Action: &Open
	Application: C:\PROGRA~1\PERL\BIN\PERL.EXE "%1" %*
	OK
Actions: New: 
	Action: Open with Arachnophilia
	Application: "C:\Program Files\Arachnophilia\arach.exe" "%1"
	OK
OK
***** .php *****
New Type
Change Icon: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL (I like the gear-in-a-window)
Description of type: PHP File
Associated extension: .php
Content Type (MIME): application/x-httpd-php
Default Extension: .php
Actions: New: 
	Action: &Open
	Application: "C:\Program Files\PHP\php.exe"
	OK
Actions: New: 
	Action: Open with Arachnophilia
	Application: "C:\Program Files\Arachnophilia\arach.exe" "%1"
	OK
OK
***** .phtml *****
New Type
Change Icon: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL (I like the gear-in-a-window)
Description of type: PHP File
Associated extension: .phtml
Content Type (MIME): application/x-httpd-php
Default Extension: .php
Actions: New: 
	Action: &Open
	Application: "C:\Program Files\PHP\php.exe"
	OK
Actions: New: 
	Action: Open with Arachnophilia
	Application: "C:\Program Files\Arachnophilia\arach.exe" "%1"
	OK
OK
***** .shtml *****
For perl/cgi scripts to be loaded within an HTML document, the file 
extension must be one recognized by the server for Server Side Includes 
(SSI). The suffix .shtml is one such extension, and it doesn't seem to 
be associated in windows initially to an icon, so I did it myself. This 
isn't necessary, but if you like pretty icons like I do, you'll want to.
New Type
Change Icon: C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe (I used the standard 
explorer doc icon)
Description of type: Microsoft HTML Document 5.0
Associated extension: .shtml
Content Type (MIME): text/html
Default Extension: .html
[Replicate actions from .htm, .html filetypes. You can bring up a 
second File Types panel from a second folder to cut/paste from one to 
the other.]
OK
***** Random Thoughts: Tips and Tricks ***************************
********** Tip #1: Calling Perl/CGI scripts within shtml files ***
I had a lot of trouble getting Perl scripts to execute when called from 
within html files. Here is what I learned:
1) make sure the filetype is one associated with SSI, as noted earlier 
in the .shtml file association description.
2) Use the right call, the right way. Here's what I found to work:
Explicitly run the Perl executable on the file. It think it requires 
full path names. This can be placed in the <HEADER> of the shtml doc. 
e.g.
<!--#exec cmd="c:\progra~1\perl\bin\perl.exe c:\fischer\webdesign\wc-
perl\axs-counter\ax.pl" -->
Call it as a cgi. The script location must be referenced from a virtual 
directory with execute privilege. e.g.
<!--#exec cgi="Perl/AXS-Counter/ax.pl" -->
Include Perl code that address the Document Object Model (DOM) from 
within HTML <SCRIPT> tags. This requires that the <SCRIPT> tags be 
placed either in the perl script initially, or surrounding the call to 
the script. As with the exec cgi call, the file must be referenced from 
a virtual directory. I have found that in some cases this works, but 
produces errors that don't occur via the cgi method. e.g.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PerlScript"><!--#include virtual="Perl/AXS-
Counter/ax.pl" --></SCRIPT> 
Here is a simple example of the above.
***** start file: test.shtml *****
<HTML>
	<BODY>
		<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PerlScript">
			<!--#include file="example.pl" -->
		</SCRIPT>
		<BR>And so do I.
	</BODY>
</HTML>
***** end file: test.shtml *****
***** start file: example.pl *****
$window->document->write("Hello world!\n\n");
$window->document->write("PerlScript says: Hello, world!");
***** end file: example.pl *****
********** Tip #2: Thoughts on Installing PWS, Perl, PHP ***
I've done this installation three times now.
PWS crashed near the end of the install until I got mtssetup.exe from 
Microsoft. Then it went smoothly.
I also have trouble running through the PWS Publish & Web Site if I 
change the virtual directories first. Of course, since I don't use the 
Publish feature, it doesn't matter.
It can be hard to find, but there is some really good information in 
the PWS documentation.
The Perl installation was a breeze. My troubles came from not knowing 
anything about Perl, nor understanding the difference between generic 
Perl scripts and scripts that use the Document Object Model, and the 
nuances of calling scripts via SSI. Once the SSI stuff is setup 
properly, life gets much easier.
PHP4 installation was a major hassle because the install documentation 
of this writing is still for PHP3, and does not totally correspond with 
the PHP4 files. Further, the PHP4 readme.txt differs from the Manual 
Installation instructions which varies from user comments in the 
www.PHP.net comments and FAQts. However, when you finally figure out 
what's going on, it's very simple. Change two lines in php.ini and 
stick it in the windows dir, move phph4ts.dll to windows/system, and 
edit and run a registry file, reboot. Anything more than that is icing.
********** Tip #3: Major system malfunction and horrible crashing ***
That said, the first time I tried to install PHP4, I screwed things up 
and my computer crashed on boot about 15 times in a row. I thought at 
first I was going to have to do a complete system reinstall. But then I 
booted in safe mode (press F5 during the boot) and windows loaded 
properly. Then I restarted, and that fixed things. Moral: Safe Mode is 
a Happy Place when things go wrong.
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Harwant Grewal
I think the best thing if you want to work on the perl ftp and the php 
the best server is the xitami web server as it enables win98 to the ftp 
server and you can run the cgi and any other scripting language...
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