Windows Installer for PHP 5.2.9 RC and PHP 5.3 Beta

I am pleased to let everyone know that PHP development community has made significant improvements to the installer in upcoming PHP releases. In particular a number of bugs have been fixed to make the installer work well with FastCGI extension in IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 and with FastCGI module in IIS 7.0. Now the installer will do for you many of the configuration steps that previously you had to complete manually by following the instructions in the article Using FastCGI to Host PHP Applications on IIS 7.0. Specifically, the installer will:

1. Unpack PHP core files and extensions
2. Make changes to the php.ini to enable necessary extensions and specify correct extension path
3. Create and configure a new FastCGI process pool for PHP executable
4. Create a script or handler mapping for *.php extension.

Download the PHP installer for non-thread-safe build of PHP from these locations:

PHP for Windows Release Candidates

Note that when PHP 5.2.9 and PHP 5.3 final builds are released the installers will be available on official PHP download page at http://www.php.net/downloads.php.

And a final reminder: when you run the installer – make sure to choose “IIS FastCGI” Web Server Setup.

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