Installing FastCGI & PHP5 on Windows Server 2008

Hi Stephane.. I tried to do as you say here but I think I have a problem..
it seems that I don’t have FastCGI in my laptop

I’m running vista ultimate 32-bit operation system 2006

I have installed IIS7 and I don’t know how to get the FastCGI for IIS7

when I choose add module mapping the window that pops has only three blanks input not four as in the pic here.. the Executable input is missing..

and in the module menu options there is no ((FastCGIModule))

I still can’t have the information about php with the code:

in the php file

they showed up only if I put this code:

PHP Information

does that mean I can not use it?

or I can just work fine with it?

thanks for help..

the code doesn’t show up here, so I’ll delete some of it to make it show up:

html>
PHP Information

/body>
</html

the first one is not complete

here it is:

html>
head>
title>PHP Information

body>
?php phpInfo(); ?>

</html

Hi Ahmed,

First of all, FastCGI is installed by default on Windows 2008 but not any other version (Vista, 2000, 2003). I’ve got it installed on my home pc, I’ll look into this and I’ll post here soon.

And second, for the phpinfo.php file, you don’t need to put anything else than this code:

< ?php phpinfo(); ?>

so do you think I have a problem with the installation?

don’t you think it’s gonna work?

I really need it to work cause I’m gonna begin my lessons from the day after tomorrow..

can’t I download the fastCGI from anywhere on the net?

thanks Stephane

If the phpinfo() function doesn’t return anything, then no it’s not working.

Unless you are using Windows Server 2008, you have to install FastCGI manually.

You can get FastCGI for IIS6 here:
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1521

And FastCGI for IIS7 here:
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1299&g=6

I can’t tell you how to install it at this point but I’ll sure post about it someday.

Good luck!

thanks Stephane but the like of FastCGI for SII 7 says the page not found.. I think they already removed it..

and FastCGI for IIS6 can’t work on my machine..

I think I have to use apache instead of SII..
till I can get the new vista..

thank you a lot..

if you have any suggestions please let me know.. I’ll be here in whenever to see your work..

go ahead..

thanks again..

HI
On my development server, at home, I cannot get cgi scripts to work. Can you tell me how?
Thanks

Hi Tasneen,

I’ve posted the answer here: http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/articles/help-me-with-php-cgi-mysql.html

Hope this helps!

Is working thanks for teh info

I cant even get the IIS 7 page to display. Spent all day on this. You did in 6 minutes.

Hey Websologist,

Did you manage to finally make it work?

Great !!!
I follow your instructions and I have solved my problems.

Hi Stephane;

Thanks for this tutorial. I think I’ve got PHP running on my server now. Following your suggestions to the letter did not work. I had to change the handler mappings on the default website to get the phpinfo.php file to run.

Thanks again.
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oops, might have figured out why your suggestion didn’t work. Seems I’m only running IIS6

Windows 2008 Standard
I had to add a Handler to the Default Web Site to get this to work. My guess is that the global setting only works on sites that haven’t been created yet.

Thanks for the tutorial

Vista, sp1:
I have followed your directions. Even reinstalled php 5.2.6. No matter what I do I keep geting failures that sayu “bad isapi module in list” or “can’t find isapi module:.
My question is — where is it called out to use isapi instead of fastcgi?

Unfortunately I don’t have my Windows 2008 Server anymore but on Windows 2003, you will find the ISAPI filters under Web Sites > Properties > ISAPI Filters

Wow!After 2 months I finally can run PHP on my laptop. I didn’t understand that there are multiple places to change the module mapping info.
I was on the verge of reinstalling Vista because I thout the registry was messed up.

[...] Remember to set the PHP registry settings if you extract PHP from the ZIP http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/windows2008-iis7-fastcgi-php.html [...]

Whats wrong with just plain CGI?

My admin installed php-cgi.exe (v 5.2.9.9)
on Win 2008 IIS7

Should I reinstall to get the FastCGI?

Hi Carlos,

There’s nothing really wrong with using PHP as a CGI although you’ll gain more performance with FastCGI.

Stephane

Well it works! but… at the beginning u must first made Web Servver ISS (if u dont have so…) and after this make CGI. I am using also web expression 2 Good Luck! It took me only 10 minutes coz I am beginner in this environment.

its work fine thnx

in phpinfo.php no need enything else

?php phpInfo(); ?>

no need all of this configuration

you can find installer of PHP5:

“php-5.3.1-nts-Win32-VC9-x86″

or whatever is your machine preformance
an all you need to config is

regedit and crating phpinfo.php

*sorry for my language*

To those who get the error message “The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly” and trying to use php 5.3.2, pls try the following:

add a line in php.ini like date.timezone = “GMT”, and it should work.

For more timezone format at:
http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

I keep receiving the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error when I try running a PHP file on my Windows Server 2008 machine. The php file I am attempting to use is supposed to open a text file located within the same directory as my website and the php file. When I run the phpinfo.php file, it loads fine without any problems. Here is the php contents that do not seem to work for me:

I’m receiving the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error too, error is located in php5ts.dll module.
If I disable extensions in PHP.INI, phpinfo.php works correctly.
I checked the extensions path and it is correctly set (c:\php\ext).
If i doubleclick on php-cgi.exe, I receive the same error (if extensions are enabled in php.ini).
What can I do? Thanks

HI
I reinstalled new php ver. 5.3.3, and as stated elsewhere, there is no php5isapi.dll file in the zip files. So, I did the fastcgi install, but now there is only a blank page on the phpinfo.php page on my server.
When I check the source code, the code is there, so there is some error in the installation. how do i get the php to work on iis7, windows server 2008, without php5isapi.dll and fastcgi not working?
thanks

There is a easier way of doing it now, just following the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=PHP%3bPHP%3bPHP

Worked for me fitst time.
Also copied my old php.ini frommy version 5.16

Thanks for the tip

I installed new PHP version 5.2.16 installer file onto my webserver which is using IIS 7 of Windows server standard 2008 64bit, sql server standard 2008 64bit. After following step by step above instruction, i try to open phpinfo.php. It’s fine. But when I try to connect SQL database.I received an error message: “HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error, The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.Detailed error information: Module FastCgiModule, Notification ExecuteRequestHandler, Handler PHP_via_FastCGI,Error Code 0×00000000, Requested URL http://localhost:80/optictest/index.php
Physical Path E:\Websites\OPTIC\LIVE\www\index.php
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Who can support me, please?

I would like remind people that they should disable hide known extension as this was giving me No input file specified error

go to start =>control panel (view in icons instead of category view)
=> folder options => view tab => uncheck hide extension for known file types

http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/trouble_shooting/no_input_file_specified

Thanks worked like a charme !!

I was upgrading from w2k3 to w2k8 and it works different in some ways.
This article helped me a lot, thanks

Running IIS 7 on W2k8r2 it runs fine, but command line complains about not finding php_mbstring.dll but it is there. I copied it to all the usual places windows looks for the dll and it just never sees it.

mdvc9 Mar 17 build PHP 5.3.6 official non-threadsafe.

The PHP extension is 20090626.

it also complains about not finding PHP_exif and it is looking in the wrong directory. should be c:\php\ext according to the config file and reported in phpinfo. But the error message looks in the initial install directory.

The config is set to:

PHPinfo reports

mbstring

Multibyte Support enabled
Multibyte string engine libmbfl
HTTP input encoding translation disabled

Multibyte (japanese) regex support enabled
Multibyte regex (oniguruma) version 4.7.1

Directive Local Value Master Value
mbstring.detect_order no value no value
mbstring.encoding_translation Off Off
mbstring.func_overload 0 0
mbstring.http_input pass pass
mbstring.http_output pass pass
mbstring.http_output_conv_mimetypes ^(text/|application/xhtml\+xml) ^(text/|application/xhtml\+xml)
mbstring.internal_encoding no value no value
mbstring.language neutral neutral
mbstring.strict_detection Off Off
mbstring.substitute_character no value no value