PHP Installation on Windows systems. PHP 5. 2. 9. 2 Install on XP Pro IIS 5. Testing Date  0. Background For several days now I, as a newbie, have been unsure if I had installed PHP correctly, or not. No matter what I did phpinfo reported Configuratin File Path as  C WINDOWS. I was left to wonder what was wrong. To help resolve the phpinfo issue, I conducted a series of tests using two scripts The first is test php ini loaded. Windows All Install' title='Windows All Install' />Loaded php. A php. ini file is not loaded The second script is simply calls phpinfo. It is named test. My Dev Environment 1. Windows XP Pro SP3. IIS 5. 1 MMC 3. PHP 5. My. Admin not yet installed. My. SQL 5. 1, etc. Install location is on my local E drive. The Tests Test 1 a. How to install, reinstall, upgrade and activate Windows 10. Heres everything you need to know before you repair, reinstall, or upgrade Windows 10, including details. Clean Install. A clean install is intended for users who want to freshly install Windows on their computer by deleting all of the data on the hard disk and then. Verify that the time, dateyear timezone are set correctly ltltSet the clock Always remember to set a System Restore point before doing any work on your computer. I need to monitor and report on all changes folders and directories added, permissions changed, registry entries added that are made during the installation of a. It was the final unanswered question about Windows 7. But now, thanks to numerous reader reports, my own handson experience, and a briefing with the team. I have a problem when update as error masage 80072F76. Please help me to solve it. OS is windows 7 professional Thanks a lot. You just made my day, lol. Im a newbie at all this, but I can still sometimes help troubleshoot. My interest is that Im seeing at least a couple people who. Step by step Microsoft Windows XP Repair Install instructions. Windows 10s Anniversary Update offers a big new feature for developers A full, Ubuntubased Bash shell that can run Linux software directly on Windows. This is. PHPRC environment variable and Ini. File. Path Registry left in place and activeb. Verified no other copies of php. E PHP folderc. Renamed php. Stopped and started IIS net stop iisadmin and net start w. Born To Be Riled on this page. Ran test php ini loaded. It is not. f. Ran test. Loaded Configuration File was empty, while Configuration File php. Path showed  C WINDOWS. Test 2 a. Moved php. E PHP to C WINDOWSb. Stopped and started IISc. Ran test php ini loaded. Warcraft 3 Version 1.23 Patch on this page. It is not, which surprised me. Ran test. php.   My php. Configuration File php. Path reports it as being in C WINDOWS. Note  Per PHPs The configuration file note, PHPs search order includes  Windows directory C windows or C winnt for Windows,. Loaded Configuration File. Test 3 a. Left the solo copy of my php. C WINDOWSb. Disabled PHPRC environment variable by renaming it to Ex PHPRC and saving the settings note for this test  I left the Registry entry for PHP Ini. File. Path intactc. Stopped and started IISd. Ran test php ini loaded. Predictably it is not found. Ran the test. php. Again, my php. C WINDOWS though Configuration File php. Path reports it as being there. Test 4 a. To be thorough and eliminate all possible sources of mis direction I deleted the PHP Ini. File. Path Registry entry after backing up the Registry. The PHPRC environment variable was left disabled. Stopped and started IISc. Ran test php ini loaded. Predictably it is not. Ran test. php.   Again, no change. My php. Configuration File php. Path reports it as being there. Conclusions The first conclusion I came to is that, in the default download version of phpinfo, Configuration File php. Path is hard wired to report C WINDOWS whether php. Further, that C WINDOWS is not a default search location at least not on XP. However, given an otherwise proper setup, phpinfo reporting C WINDOWS as the value for Configuration File php. Path is merely misleading and is not actually harmful or indicative of a failed installation. Thanks go to Peter Guy of www. Daniel Brown of www. P. S.   This note is not meant to take anything away from PHP. It is a fine tool. The sole purpose of the testing was to confirm that my installation of PHP was correct.