parsing php with a webserver

Hi ALL!

I want to host my site locally so that I can test it before I upload any changes to the 'live' site. I have configured my Win2K workstation machine to be able to parse PHP using the following link as a guideline to setting it up:



(note: problem with this site is white font color on white background, but if you highlight the page you can see the text)
The problem I am now having is that when I open the index.php file it doesn't run the php scripts.
I have copied the site into wwwroot and tried to access it using the following url:
http://localhost/index.php

I get a security alert error message. Message is :

Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly.

The PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect-enabled.

If anyone has already configured their machine to run php please advise me. I am running Win2K, IIS5 and MySQL 3.xx.xx

Can anyone help???

What server does your host use? It makes sense to run php locally on the same server as your host. The reason I ask is that you could put apache on your machine.

You can grab the php-dev bundle from firepages (http://www.firepages.com.au). It will do everything that you need to do.

Failing that, if you need to stick to IIS, I can't help you.