Jun 20

Setting up PHP in IIS 6 - where are the error logs?

Tag: PHP, System Administration, Web Development, Windows — Dan @ 11:52 am

Having to get PHP 5 running with IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003 today. I was finding the process quite interesting until I wanted to check the error logs to find out the cause of an HTTP 500 error. It seems the default IIS setup doesn’t provide an easy way to get error logging info out of it. I totally agree with the sentiments expressed here. At least Apache comes setup out of the box to allow developers, developers, developers to do their job.

Then I found this page on the Microsoft site, seems I may have to write a VBScript to coax IIS into outputting it’s errors to the system error log :-|. I’m hoping something in the IIS Resource Kit will make my life easier.

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