Morpheus,
Yes, followed the tutorial, never moved to another section till all passed and also run the modder.vbs file and checked the section again 'Configuring Internet Information Services for PHP' which does show the PHP in the Handler Mappings, and also the test.php does work from the URL http://winids/test.php.
Just still getting a blank page when using the URL http://winids/
Have also setup this before in 2008 and never had a problem, and also Snort, so figure there is a setting mismatch that I haven't found.
Thanks for the quick reply back.