Question

I recently installed PHP on IIS/Windows 7, but it isn’t working. I am getting the entire source file in the browser window.

FastCGI Settings shows c:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe
Handler Mappings has

• Request Path: *.php
• Modue: FastCgiModule
• Executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe
• Request Restrictions: File or Folder, All verbs, Script Access

Answer 1

To answer the answer you gave one hour ago, which said (quoting) :

In some PHP hosts you can being a
script block with <?. In IIS the
block must start with <?php.

That’s not a setting of IIS ; that’s a configuration option of PHP, which is called short_open_tag : if that configuration option is enabled, short tags (i.e. <?) will be accepted.

Using short open tags is often not considered as a good pratice, as they can be disabled — and they are, by default, with recent versions of PHP — but, if you are admin of your server, you should be able to re-enable them.

And, for information, they are also considered as “bad” because they can cause problem with XML files, which start with <?xml — if short_open_tag is enabled, this will cause troubles, as it starts with <?

Enabling short_open_tag is just a matter of editing your php.ini file, and using

short_open_tag = On

Instead of

short_open_tag = Off

No need to edit/path all your PHP files 😉

(Well, if you are admin of your server, that is…)