I fixed a problem with IIS 6

I installed phShoutBox without a hitch - it's a wonderful, simple solution for what I was looking for - thanks!

However, whenever I hit the "Shout It Out" submit button it would write that shout 100 times into the MySQL database and the phshoutbox.php file would return a CGI Error with a message about an incomplete set of headers.

I'm running IIS 6/PHP 4.3.4/MySQL 4.0.16

After debugging a while I found that in phshoutbox.php there is a line that reads:

PHP Code:

header("Location: $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]?cmd=$phsb[cmd]"); 


...that I changed to an absolute URL so that it read:

PHP Code:

header("Location: [url]http://www.example.com/directory-where-i-have-it-installed/phshoutbox.php?cmd=[/url]$phsb[cmd]"); 


That seemed to fix the CGI Error on form submit and the writing it 100 times to MySQL. I hope this helps someone else.

[Scott]

An automatic way to do the header would be

header("Location: http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?cmd=".$phsb[cmd]);

Ill include this into future scripts. Thanks!

[katana*GFR*]

ok old topic i know, but cant you better use Apache instead of IIS? Ive been busy with PHP and stuff and from what ive read and heard Apache works better then IIS.
But i guess you have a reason for using it. Just a thought from me

It don't woyk.

When I open phShoutbox.php to view, in IE, it opens the file. What gives? :?

[Scott]

Originally posted by Katana*GFR*
ok old topic i know, but cant you better use Apache instead of IIS? Ive been busy with PHP and stuff and from what ive read and heard Apache works better then IIS.
But i guess you have a reason for using it. Just a thought from me

IIS performs much better then apache on a windows based server..

Originally posted by Guest
It don't woyk.

When I open phShoutbox.php to view, in IE, it opens the file. What gives? :?

Most likely your php is not installed correctly or you do not have a MIME type for the php extension, check with your host