Date Initially Written: 11 November 2006.
Problem: When running a PHP script with IIS a No input file specified error is shown.
Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional with service pack 4.
Background: A website I was making that uses PHP would only show No input file specified whenever I tried to open a PHP page in my browser. This problem only occurred with one website, all other websites that used PHP functioned properly.
Resolution Steps: I first looked in the IIS management console (Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Internet Services Manager) and compared the settings for the troublesome site with a known good site. All of the settings were identical.
Some research then lead me to look at the php.ini file and in particular the doc_root setting. I had the following setting:
doc_root = "d:\Inetpub\wwwroot"
The comments above this setting say:
; The root of the PHP pages, used only if nonempty.
; if PHP was not compiled with FORCE_REDIRECT, you SHOULD set doc_root
; if you are running php as a CGI under any web server (other than
IIS)
; see documentation for security issues. The alternate is to use the
; cgi.force_redirect configuration below
I'm using PHP in ISAPI mode on my development workstation, not CGI, so I tried commenting out the setting so it looked like this:
; doc_root = "d:\Inetpub\wwwroot"
and then I restarted IIS by opening a command prompt (Start Programs Accessories Command Prompt) and type the command: iisreset
This fixed the problem!
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