Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<', expecting end of file in ..\Playground\ PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<'

Question

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers accessPolicy=”Read, Script, Write”>
<add name=”web_config” path=”*.config” verb=”*” modules=”IsapiModule” scriptProcessor=”%windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll” resourceType=”Unspecified” requireAccess=”Write” preCondition=”bitness64″ />
</handlers>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<fileExtensions>
<remove fileExtension=”.config” />
</fileExtensions>

Answer 1

Well, that's definitely the error you get if you paste xml into PHP:

<?php
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

...php is expecting to see code (you are giving it tags, which is more like data)