Xitami on Microsoft Windows

This section contains notes and hints specific to Xitami on Windows.

Note: You should read the manual installation steps first!

This list describes how to set up the PHP CGI binary to work with Xitami on Windows.

Important for CGI users: Read the faq on cgi.force_redirect for important details. This directive needs to be set to 0. If you want to use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] you have to enable the cgi.fix_pathinfo directive.

Warning

By using the CGI setup, your server is open to several possible attacks. Please read our CGI security section to learn how to defend yourself from those attacks.

Make sure the webserver is running, and point your browser to xitamis admin console (usually http://127.0.0.1/admin), and click on Configuration.
Navigate to the Filters, and put the extension which PHP should parse (i.e. .php) into the field File extensions (.xxx).
In Filter command or script put the path and name of your PHP CGI executable i.e. C:\php\php.exe for PHP 4, or C:\php\php-cgi.exe for PHP 5.
Press the 'Save' icon.
Restart the server to reflect changes.

User Contributed Notes
Xitami on Microsoft Windows

ae_engine at yahoo dot com
02-Nov-2004 08:07


I have successfully configured Xitami using cgi.redirect

in PHP

set cgi.redirect = 1

set cgi.redirect_status = CGI_REDIRECT_STATUS;



in Xitami, defaults.cfg

under CGI_ENVIRONMENT

insert CGI_REDIRECT_STATUS="-"

rjb1 at catalog dot net dot au
18-Sep-2004 09:23


I am running xitami as a business www server on ms-windows. I have a number of long-running PHP scripts. I developed a tiny java applet to receive and display progressive status information from these slow scripts. It effectively facilitates SERVER PUSH from PHP scripts to IE and Netscape browsers.  Take a look: catalog.net.au/netClient.zip (Ron Boles, Melbourne, Australia)

rjb1 at catalog dot net dot au
12-Apr-2004 07:57


PHP via ISAPI with XITAMI

I have developed a small GUI in c++, which runs XITAMI and configures the Xitami ISAPI interface for use with PHP. It is so much faster than the PHP cgi interface and appears to be more stable too. 

Take a look here: http://catalog.net.au/xisapi/default.html

Ron Boles

Melbourne, Australia

Roshambo
16-Oct-2003 03:39


I was only able to get PHP (4.3.3) working under Xitami (2.5c0) on Windows XP (SP1) by adding the following lines to defaults.cfg:



[Mime]

    php=application/x-httpd-php

    

[Filter]

    .php="c:/php/php.exe"



Note the quotation marks and the forward slashes in the filter section.

david at advisorymatters dot co dot uk
12-Sep-2003 06:54


Using the CGI (c:\php[version]\php.exe) with Xitami since PHP version 4.3.2 requires the following setting in php.ini before the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] call will return a value:



cgi.fix_pathinfo=1



Note that $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] still works.

janko dot slavic at email dot si
30-Nov-2002 04:51


[Editors Note]


You can force IE to disregard a cached page by pressing the Control key and click the Refresh button.





Please, do not forget the IE caches files.





I had a test.php and got the error message. I changed the defaults.cfg and also the cgi.force_redirect to = 0. After restarting the Xitami the error message was still there. 


After a while I saved the test.php file to test2.php and found that it is working fine...