Did you fix your PHP 5.3 issue on Windows 2008 server on 64-bit?

This post is to help anyone who is having 500 Internal Server Errors with their install of PHP 5.3 on IIS 7 in the Windows 2008 Server environment. I just spent a few hours troubleshooting this and I hope I can help save more hours of the same for others. I looked this up and found a lot of false leads...

I'm looking at my PHP error log and I see multiple entries for this: [15-Jun-2009 03:45:39] PHP Warning: is_readable() [<a href='function.is-readable'>function.is-readable</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\file\path\blog/C:\file\path\blog/wp-content/plugins/all...

I am having issues where just the rewrite maps are working for me but not the rewrite rules. i just recently migrated my blog from wordpress over to sharepoint. while running my wordpress blog, i have changed the url structure a few times. i have had to setup multiple rules for each of the different...

If I install Wordpress in the root, I can do this without any problems: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/ It's installed at http://www.sub.domain.com/ IIS7, FastCGI, current Rewrite module I need to install another one at http://www.sub.domain.com/folder...