XP IIS 5.1 PHP 5.3.0 installation

I have tried a lot of things and now this:
Hello, World!!PHP Warning: PHP Startup: zip: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20060613 PHP compiled with module API=20090626 These options need to match in Unknown on line 0

I did not compile anything just installing from the downloaded .msi.

Thanks for the help,
Ralph

that error is basically saying that the zip extension you have installed in there wasn't compiled with the same version of php you are using. You can either try to find another copy of the extension for the version of php you are using or you can disable the extension if you won't be using it. It was probably just an error with the installer, looks like they added an old zip extension file by mistake.

That's great I commented any "zip" reference from php.ini.

PHP now is working (finally) from the root of the IIS web server.
I am getting a 403.1 error on a phpscript virtual directory so I still hthings to work on but now atleast I can start learning PHP on windows.
I have a XAMPP (Apache MySQL PHP Perl) installation that took all of two minutes to install. Installing PHP on XP has not been easy!

Thanks so much for the help.
Ralph

It has always been a pain to install PHP on IIS - I've only gotten it to work correctly once, before realizing how easy it is to use APACHE.

I've never had that much installing php with both IIS and Apache. I remember back when I was first starting PHP and had to manually install it with IIS on a windows 2000 machine. It wasn't that hard, but it definitely wasn't as easy as it is now with the installer.