PHP has encountered an Access Violation at ....

I am working on windows 2000 server, with IIS 5 and PHP 4.3.7. We have been running the servers for about 2 weeks now, and just today (well, we just noticed it), we started getting a message that said, "PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01870AFD".

I googled for it, and found a few references to Access Violations, including a forum on this site (with no replies!). The PHP bugtracker had some references to this, but no information on how to resolve it, and the only guy from php that had answered said to check support, as this didn't look like a bug to him!

I did find one site that suggested restarting IIS, and that this would sometimes fix the problem. I have done that, and the page in reference is now working properly. However, I still don't know what caused the problem, or what I can do to prevent this.

I also saw a reference to the permissions on php.ini being misconfigured, but I haven't seen any details on this or why that would cause this problem without preventing PHP from working all together.

If anyone knows of a solution to this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Benjamin Orchard.

The facetious answer would be to stop using IIS... not to offend any diehard Microsoft fans but IIS sucks - Apache2 works much better on all my Win32 machines (Win2k pro, WinXP).

edink at php dot net posted this at the bugs.php.net site: "Could you try php5ts.dll from http://emini.dk/php5ts-zend-mm.zip". Apparently that seems to work for php5 installations - as far as php4 goes, either roll back a version (to 4.3.6) or get the latest CVS snapshot.

I completely agree that IIS sucks--it isn't my choice, however, and I can't do much about it. I would love to switch over to Apache--there are some very definite advantages to the apache way!