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PHP: Install: How to install PHP on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)?
Jul 14th, 2006 06:28
Knud van Eeden, Philip Olson, Sunny Rao,
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Philip Olson
The PHP Manual is clear on this. Before installing PHP on a Windows
system, be sure to read the Manual Installation Instructions:
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php
Next, read the instructions specific to IIS here:
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php
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PHP: Install: How to install PHP on Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS)?
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Steps: Overview:
1. -Download and install PHP program
2. -Add the path to <your PHP directory> to the Microsoft Windows PATH
environment variable
3. -Copy the file
php.ini-recommended
to
php.ini
in <your PHP directory>
4. -Edit this file php.ini
1. -Set doc_root to c:\Inetpub\wwwdir
2. -Possibly set the extension_dir to <your PHP directory>\ext
5. -Change the settings of IIS
1. -Add the '.PHP' extension in 'Home Directory' in IIS
1. -You do usually not also have to install a PHP ISAPI filter
(only if you also want HTTP authentification)
2. -Only if you use Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, add a new PHP
'Web Service extension' in IIS (otherwise you get a HTTP 404
error)
6. -Restart IIS
7. -Test if PHP is installed correctly
1. -Copy a .PHP page in the c:\Inetpub\wwwroot directory
2. -Start your web browser with that .PHP page
http://localhost/<your PHP filename>
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Steps: Worked out:
1. -Download a PHP for Windows program (extension .zip)
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
1. -Install it e.g. in
(this will further be called <your PHP directory>)
c:\program files\PHP
or
c:\PHP
2. -Add the path to <your PHP directory> to the Microsoft Windows PATH
environment variable
This way the PHP DLL files, PHP executables, and php.ini can all
remain in the PHP directory without cluttering up the Windows
system directory.
(Usually you set the path globally via 'Start'->'Control
panel'->'System'->'Advanced'->'Environment
variables'->'Path'->'Edit', then add ;<your PHP directory>)
1. -Only if you choose to *not* set this path,
you could e.g.
1. -copy the file
php4isapi.dll (if you install PHP 4)
or
php5isapi.dll (if you install PHP 4)
to your Windows directory
c:\windows (if you use Microsoft Windows XP Professional)
or
c:\winnt (if you use Microsoft Windows 2003 server)
Note:
You should find this file
php4isapi.dll (if you install PHP 4)
or
php5isapi.dll (if you install PHP 5)
in the php directory after the installation or unzipping of
php, otherwise in the apache directory (if that web server
is also installed on your machine)
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2. -Copy the file
php4ts.dll (if installing PHP 4)
or
php5ts.dll (if installing PHP 5)
to your Windows system32 directory
c:\windows\system32 (if you use Microsoft Windows XP
Professional)
or
c:\winnt\system32 (if you use Microsoft Windows 2003
Server)
3. -Check if the file
msvcrt.dll
is present in your windows system directory
c:\windows\system32 (if you use Microsoft Windows XP
Professional)
or
c:\winnt\system32 (if you use Microsoft Windows 2003
Server)
If not, copy this file (if present) from e.g. your php
directory to this windows system directory
4. -Possibly copy or save this php.ini file in the directory
c:\windows\php.ini (if using Microsoft Windows XP
Professional)
or
c:\winnt\php.ini (if using Microsoft Windows 2003 Server)
otherwise in the apache directory (if that web server is
also installed on your machine)
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Note:
It might be a much better solution to not copy this
php.ini to your c:\windows or c:\winnt directory, but to
keep it in the PHP directory where your php.exe file is
located.
This because if you have say PHP 3, PHP 4 and PHP 5
installed on your computer, they then all have their own
php.ini in that case.
And should you keep your php.ini centrally in your
c:\windows directory, then all these different versions
will usually try to use that one php.ini (which is usually
only optimized and usable for only one version of PHP
(e.g. PHP5) at once).
Thus possibly delete the central
php.ini
in your c:\windows directory and keep a local php.ini in
each of your PHP version directories (that is there where
you find that php.exe or php-cgi.exe program).
3. -Copy the file
php.ini-recommended
otherwise
php.ini-dist
(which after installation is present in <your PHP directory>
to
php.ini
in <your PHP directory>
4. -Edit this file
php.ini
1. Open your favorite editor (e.g. notepad.exe)
2. Load that file php.ini
3. Edit the entries (search for this words in the file, e.g. using
<CTRL><F>)
1. Change the 'doc_root' to point to your Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS) root directory
doc_root = c:\inetpub\wwwroot
2. I also had to comment out the line
; browscap
otherwise I got a warning when IIS started
3. You could further choose to possibly change the
'extension_dir' to point to the place containing the DLL
modules for the extensions ('ext' is usually a directory
present in the same directory where you installed PHP) But
you might choose skip this.
e.g. the default is (which means in the current
default PHP directory)
extension_dir = "./"
Otherwise change it to
e.g.
extension_dir = <your PHP directory>\ext
e.g.
extension_dir = c:\program files\php\ext
e.g.
extension_dir = c:\php\ext
e.g.
extension_dir = c:\apache\php\sapi (if you are also using
Apache)
5. -Change the settings of IIS
1. -Make sure Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is
installed
http://localhost
should then show a working web page
2. -Now inform IIS that you want it to check also for PHP pages
2. Inform that IIS also has to react when your webpage has
the .php extension
1. -select tab 'Home Directory'
2. -click button 'Configuration'
3. -click button 'Add'
4. -In 'Executable', browse to the dll that will
handle this .php extensions:
e.g. browse to this file
php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 4)
or
php5isapi.dll (if installing PHP 5)
that was included with the PHP program that you
installed,
e.g.
c:\apache\php\sapi\php4isapi.dll
otherwise try
c:\windows\php4isapi.dll
5. -fill in in 'Extension'
.php
6. -click button 'OK' until finished
3. -If you are installing on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, you
will have to do the following (otherwise you will get an error
404 when you try to open a .PHP page)
1. -Open up the IIS Manager
2. -Go to Web Service Extensions
3. -Choose "Add a new Web service extension"
4. -Enter in a name such as
PHP
5. -Click button 'Add'
6. -For the value browse to either the ISAPI file
(php4isapi.dll or php5isapi.dll)
7. -Enable checkbox 'Set extension status to Allowed'
8. -Click button 'OK'
4. -Possibly install HTTP authentification (but you can just skip
this installation steps usually, as you just told IIS already
what to do when it finds a file with a .php extension)
1. Inform where IIS can find the dll that will check and handle
the PHP information:
1. -Goto the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
management console
1. -click button Windows 'Start'
2. -select from list 'Control Panel'
3. -double click on icon 'Administrative tools'
4. -double click on icon 'Internet Information Services'
5. -that will open the dialog box 'Internet Information
Services'
6. -click the '+' at the name of your computer
7. -This will open its Internet sites in the left pane
8. -Right click on 'Web Sites'
9. -select from list 'Properties'
10. -select tab 'ISAPI Filters'
11. -click button 'Add'
12. -fill in some name (e.g. 'PHP') in 'Filter Name:'
13. -click the browse name and browse to the location of
the
php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 4)
or
php5isapi.dll (if installing PHP 5)
e.g.
c:\program files\php\php4isapi.dll (if installing
PHP 4)
or
c:\program files\php\php5isapi.dll (if installing
PHP 5)
e.g.
c:\apache\php\sapi\php4isapi.dll (if installing
PHP 4)
or
c:\apache\php\sapi\php4isapi.dll (if installing
PHP 5)
otherwise try e.g.
c:\windows\php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 4)
c:\winnt\php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 4)
c:\windows\php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 5)
c:\winnt\php4isapi.dll (if installing PHP 5)
14. -click button 'OK'
15. -click button 'OK'
6. -Now restart your IIS
1. -Right click on the computer name, choose 'All tasks' (if using
Microsoft Windows 2003 server), choose 'Restart IIS
information server')
2. -Or if you want to do this from a MSDOS command prompt or run
box, type:
net stop iisadmin
- and/or -
iisreset /stop
3. Then start IIS again by using
net start w3svc
-- and/or --
net start iisadmin
- and/or -
iisreset /start
7. -Now test if your .php files are recognized via IIS
1. To check if IIS is working in your browser:
type in the URL field of your browser the following text:
localhost
this is the default, and is accepted without a login
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or otherwise
127.0.0.1
Then possibly supply:
(userid=<your Windows2000/XP userid>
password=<your Windows2000/XP password>)
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Then 2 browser windows with information open.
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To run .php programs, you must store them inside the homepage
directory
\inetpub\wwwroot
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For example, if you create a file
myfilename.php
and you store this in the default directory:
\inetpub\wwwroot\
(e.g. as \inetpub\wwwroot\myfilename.php) you can access this
.php file in your browser by typing the URL:
http://localhost/myfilename.php
(note: do not add 'www' here, like
http://www.localhost/myfilename.php that will not be
recognized)
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Your .php test page might contain e.g. only this text:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
If IIS recognizes this correctly it will show a webpage with a
lot of information about PHP variables in use.
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Note:
To run your pages in your browser, your URL *must* start with
http//localhost/...
or
localhost/...
or
http://<your computername>
e.g.
http://delli8500
or
http://<your computer IP address>
e.g.
http://12.13.14.15
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else using e.g. the real filename, like
c:\inetpub\...
or
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\...
will *not* run the .php page (or similarly .asp, .aspx code) (but
instead possibly show a blank HTML page or a page with some text)
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If you get an error 404 check if you have set the values in 'Web
Service Extensions', if you installed on Microsoft Windows 2003
Server
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Double check if
-if 'extension_dir' is set in php.ini,
-if 'docroot' is set in php.ini,
-if the PATH environment variable points to your PHP dll
directory,
-Only if you also (optionally) installed the ISAPI PHP dll,
the arrow should be green (and not red) and pointing up in IIS
-if the php extension has been set in IIS
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Successfully installed on Microsoft Windows XP Professional
using
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) v5.1
and
PHP 4
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Successfully installed on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
using
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) v6
and
PHP 5.1.4
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Book: see also:
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[book: author: Welling, Luke / Thomson, Laura - title: PHP and MySQL
web development - publisher: SAMS - year: 2001 - ISBN 0-672-31784-2 -
p. 800 'Installation notes for Microsoft IIS']
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Internet: see also:
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PHP: Microsoft Windows: manual installation instructions
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php
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PHP: Microsoft Windows: manual general installation instructions
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php
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PHP: Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php
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How do I install PHP3.06 with IIS4 on NT4.0?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/165/fid/37
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Installing PHP 3.x.x for IIS 4.x on Windows NT
http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/install-php3xx-for-iis4x-on-
windowsnt.phtml
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Internet: Web server: How install Microsoft Information Server (IIS)
on Windows2000/XP Professional?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12558
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Internet: Web Server: Microsoft Information Server: IIS: How
start/stop IIS from MSDOS command line?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/27413/fid/935
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WebThang Tutorials: How to install PHP for IIS on XP Pro
http://216.239.59.104/search?
q=cache:b3avUSjLdSEJ:www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_server/php_iis/php_ii
s.asp+WebThang+Tutorials+PHP+IIS&hl=en
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Operating system: Microsoft Windows: WAMP: Link: Overview: Can you
give an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/33803/fid/772
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