IIS to parse php in a .dll files [closed]

Question

The .dll files ain't the dynamic link library. That's what the client side software calls for (cannot change).

Its essentially a php script that should run and return specific values.

However currently it simply downloads it and that results in a failure.

That's what it results in on a Apache server:

[Update] NewVersion=1 UpdateFileNumber=1 UpdateFile1=update1/LPServerInfo.dat
ServerNumber=1 Server1=http://88.159.116.217/

here it is on IIS: 198.24.133.74:8080/update.dll?0

renaming it to php works fine for testing - it runs and returns values. I edited the MIME and set .dll to application/x-httpd-php but that doesn't seem to work in IIS.

Any solutions?

Answer 1

This can be configured in IIS with a Script Mapping. The path (file type *.dll) is mapped to ISAPI extensions and disabled by default in IIS 6 and 7. To process a dll as PHP in IIS 7, follow these steps:

1. In IIS Manager, select your website

2. Under the IIS heading, double-click Handler Mappings

3. Click Add Script Map under Actions in the right pane

4. Set Request Path to "*.dll"

5. Set Executable to the path to your PHP executable

6. Set any necessary Request Restrictions - in this case I would suggest limiting "Verbs" to GET

7. Click OK