Sometimes IIS manager takes 10-20 seconds to load, and when it is finally loaded it has no server connected (and therefore no websites). Apparently this is fairly common on Sharepoint 2007 servers, and the fix is to restart the sharepoint timer service, but I do not run sharepoint.

As a side effect of this problem with IIS, my HELM 4 control panel stops responding, possibly because it is in its own application pool. In the past I have had to reboot the server to get everything working again, but I can’t keep doing that with a production server. Restarting the IIS Admin service in Service Manager hangs and eventually fails trying to stop the World Wide Web Publishing service.

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I just installed PHP 5 on a windows 2003 server running IIS 6 and found that none of my extentions were loading correctly. Upon further inspection of the phpinfo() command, I found the following:


Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File (none)


So PHP had decided not to use the php.ini file that was located in the working directory, but rather attempt to use one from C:\Windows, and because it could not find one there it was using the default setup. Initially I put a symlink from c:\windows\php.ini to the real php.ini file, but that did not appear to work either.

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