Comments on: IIS 7: Install FastCGI & PHP on Server 2008

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:22 +0000

Thank you for a great tutorial. I’ve been trying to make this work on my own, with little success . At last I can host my own site.

By: Raymond Besiga

Raymond Besiga — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:37:08 +0000

You’re a life saver.Thank you so much!! I have been trying to make this work for quite some time.

By: Grahame

Grahame — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:32:39 +0000

Dave,

Great post – thank you. I’m hoping you – or another reader – can help with a 404 error, however.

Have installed PSP 5.3.1 (msi) on SBS 2008R2. Modified php.ini & running “PHP -info” from command line at C:\PHP works fine.

When I open http://localhost.inffo.php I get 404 Not Found error. Have checked IIS handler mapping etc. & all seems ok.

Interestingly, if I open http://localhost I get our Sharepoint ‘Team Site’, instead of the IIS page. I’m not sure if this is normal & possibly related to the 404 error?

Regards,
Grahame

By: Eric Tanefo

Eric Tanefo — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:11:19 +0000

To Dave Lawlor,

Can you develop a package that will automate this installation process.
I am interested in running some PHP web sites using MySQL on a server running SBS 2008.
Thsi wil be extremely helpful since I do not want to spend my time doing this and troubleshooting the problems.

Do you offer technical services for installation of the Apache HTTP Server as well as MySQL and PHP. I am thinking about a scenario where both IIS ad Apache could co-exist.

Thanks,

By: Simon Price

Simon Price — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:07:16 +0000

I have set this up and get a 404 page not found error and cant figure out why…. any ideas?

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:01:14 +0000

I am new to most of this. I have read through all these post and all seems to be working but this.

In what format do I put:
in the info.php file? Not sure if I use notepad or what.
Thank you for any help

By: Yurii

Yurii — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:20:06 +0000

fail when [?= SOMEthing ?]

but o.k. when [?php ?]

By: Yurii

Yurii — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:18:53 +0000

Hello!

meybe you can explain, how to render php when used

I have success when render , but fail when use syntax above.

regards

By: John O

John O — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:16:52 +0000

It started working this morning, all is good!

By: John O

John O — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:57:09 +0000

I am building a new webserver using server 2008 64bit, installed the latest version of PHP (5.3.0), everything goes well until I try the localhost/info.php, I get a HTTP 500 internal Server Error, Have read through some of the above comments, but have not figured it out yet.

By: fm3000

fm3000 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:18:10 +0000

Hey man! thx, great tutorial, I got my 500 fixed after reading the timezone hint above!

cheers for that.

By: Lynn Breaux

Lynn Breaux — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:53:29 +0000

I had the problem with localhost/info.php and found that my default website was not going to wwwroot. I put it in http://www.lynnbreaux.com and it works fine.

By: HcUser

HcUser — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:19:22 +0000

To any who get the 500 error-

This 500 could be caused by a PHP error message generated by the application. Your best bets are to turn off fast cgi logging, and to set up a php error log. The following entries in your php.ini flie should do the trick:

fastcgi.logging = 0
log_errors=on
error_reporting = E_ALL
error_log=”C:\Windows\Temp\php-errors.log”

The important things here are to make sure that these are the only declarations of those settings that aren’t commented out in the php.ini flie. Also, that “C:\Windows\Temp” is where your system TEMP directory is.

You should restart IIS, and then re-run your application. If it is a PHP error that is causing the 500, you should now be able to see the PHP error in the php-errors.log file. If it was a PHP warning or notice, or other non-error message, it should now be displayed on the screen, as well as logged in php-errors.log

Now we can party like a rock star-

By: Joo

Joo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:19:11 +0000

Hi I followed your instructure and I am able to display
info.php, but I am getting this error message when I submit a form to send_form_email.php. Please help!

Thanks,

HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error
The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.

Module FastCgiModule
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler FastCGI PHP
Error Code 0×00000000
Requested URL http://172.16.82.100:80/send_form_email.php
Physical Path C:\inetpub\CDCISite\send_form_email.php
Logon Method Anonymous
Logon User Anonymous

IIS received the request; however, an internal error occurred during the processing of the request. The root cause of this error depends on which module handles the request and what was happening in the worker process when this error occurred.
IIS was not able to access the web.config file for the Web site or application. This can occur if the NTFS permissions are set incorrectly.
IIS was not able to process configuration for the Web site or application.
The authenticated user does not have permission to use this DLL.
The request is mapped to a managed handler but the .NET Extensibility Feature is not installed.

By: Murat Bilga

Murat Bilga — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:34 +0000

Hi Dave. Thank you for your article.

By: Dez

Dez — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:59:55 +0000

I am having serious problems with my php or something. I have uninstalled IIS…PHP, MYSQL several times and i am still getting the same results. Basically my info file is showing great with no problems. I am trying toinstall a software script and when i go to the install.php on server i get:
PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant d79260 – assumed ‘d79260′ in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ntmfcloaded in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant d79260 – assumed ‘d79260′ in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant d87260 – assumed ‘d87260′ in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Undefined index: d87260 in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant d87260 – assumed ‘d87260′ in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\videogirls\_setup\install.php(5) : eval()’d code(2) : eval()’d code on line 1 PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant d98260 – assumed ‘d98260′ in

That is just some of the code….http://localhost shows find and phpmyadmin shows with no issues….its just this install.php that is giving problems

By: VooDoo

VooDoo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:37:22 +0000

yes, DAN Sexton is a BIG STAR!!
Thanks Dan for posting you tip here!!
Cya
VooDoo

By: Andy Reichenbach

Andy Reichenbach — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:29:49 +0000

Having issues installing PHP on Windows Server 2008 64-bit system. Downloaded the VC9 x64 Non Thread Safe zip package from: http://windows.php.net/qa/ and can’t remember where I found the .msi version (php-5.3-win32-VC9-x64-latest.msi) but I ended up getting the error message: ‘The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing the package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2356.’

I unpackaged the zip to the C:\PHP5 directory a week or so ago and got a successful handling return by inputing http://localhost/info.php into a browser, but then there were other issues I can’t quite remember. Am starting the process over and would like to get some guidance if the zip package is the way to go, if there is a different installer I should download or if I need to go the SVN route, or… Please advise. Thanks

By: Brady Wilson

Brady Wilson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:05:24 +0000

Most of these posts are old but I though I would add my two cents…

I was getting the 404.3 message as well – couldn’t figure it out because it really looked like it was setup correctly.

It appears that IIS does not like spaces in the Handler name – so an entry for “PHP via FastCGI” will give the error whereas “PHP_via_FastCGI” will work.

Fixed my issue anyway.

-b

By: Adam Lavery

Adam Lavery — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:42:38 +0000

Mr Sexton, you’re a star!

Been scratching around for hours trying to figure out why something so simple should cause such a headache. Quite why PHP can’t rely on the system’s timezone or if this is a pre-requisite to running PHP, they couldn’t have included the question during the installation is beyond me!

It’s a shame this is at the bottom of this post – I’m sure many will have given up by the time they get here. Perhaps the author could update his post to include this essential information for the latest PHP release?

To whoever is responsible for PHP – don’t be so stupid and fix this!!