User manual PARALLELS HELM 4.1.2 PHP FOR MICROSOFT IIS 5 AND 6 MODULE GUIDE REV 1.0

[. . . ] 4 Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About Parallels Helm About This Guide Installing PHP Setting Up the PHP Module Providing PHP Support Making PHP Available to Your Customers Enabling PHP on a Web Site Enabling PHP During Domain Creation 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 CHAPTER 1 Preface In this chapter: Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Please refer to the documentation available on the site for PHP installation and configuration advise should you require it. Default PHP install settings should allow PHP functionality provided the PHP paths match those within the Parallels Helm service. Details on how to do this are provided within this guide. CHAPTER 5 Setting Up the PHP Module To set up the PHP module in Parallels Helm: 1. Run the Parallels Helm Configuration Tool, a link for which can be found either on the desktop or in the Tools sub-folder usually located here: C:\Program Files\WebHost Automation\Helm4\Tools or C:\Program Files\Parallels\Helm4\Tools for fresh Parallels Helm 4. 1 installations. 1. Scroll down the list of modules available and ensure that the PHP Support module is checked and that it is Installed, Up to date. If not, you can check the module, and then click the Install/Uninstall Modules button to install the module. Once installed, you can configure PHP within the Web service. CHAPTER 6 Providing PHP Support To set up PHP support in Parallels Helm: 1. In Parallels Helm control panel, go to Home > Helm System > Servers > [Your Server] > Services > [Your IIS 5/6 Web Service] 3. Scroll down the web service, extend the Microsoft IIS 5/6 PHP Extension, and you will be presented with the following settings: Make PHP v4 available to users. By default this is usually `C:\php4\php. exe' Make PHP v5 available to users. By default this is usually `C:\php5\php-cgi. exe' File Extensions (comma separated). A list of extensions you wish to use for PHP can be added here separated by a comma. The php extension is added by default. Please note that the PHP4 and PHP5 paths must match the Web Service Extension settings within IIS. You will be presented with a number of folders which include Application Pools, Web Sites and Web Service Extensions. Double click the Web Service Extensions folder and you will be presented with a list of extensions currently available. The file path must be exactly the same as the file path present within Parallels Helm. [. . . ] You will see the screen where you can configure supp ort for different scripting languages available as extensions within Parallels Helm. Under PHP Scripting Support, select the PHP version that you wish to use on the site from the drop-down box for Installed PHP version. CHAPTER 9 Enabling PHP During Domain Creation PHP can be automatically enabled on newly created domains by setting up a provisioning method for these in the main plan template. To enable PHP on a new domain: 1. Click Add and give the provisioning method a friendly name (for example, Set up PHP 4 automatically). [. . . ]