Installing PHP 5 on IIS

I used to have PHP installed and running with IIS on my Windows 2000 workstation, but that was two hard drives and as many workstation rebuilds ago. During a brief lull earlier this week, I set out to wire up the IIS server on my WinXP box with PHP and found the following article very helpful:

Installing PHP 5 on IIS in 5 simple steps

Of course, it's unusual that this sort of thing works correctly the first time around. Even though I had IIS and PHP set up correctly, I was getting ACL permissions errors whenever I tried to display my test phpinfo.php page. It took me a bit of Googling before I found a forum posting that suggested I might need to give my anonymous web user account execute permissions for the directory where my PHP executables are stored.

And just like that, I was up and running.