Re: 64-bit PHP binaries

Hi Everyone. Thanks to all of you for the great input here. I will give a 
step by step of what I am doing now.

Platform is Windows 2008 R2 standard 64bit with all updates installed.

I deleted the php folder on the c:\ drive.
I removed the filters and mapping on IIS
I deleted the registry setting hklm\software\php

I created the environment variable path values c:\php and c:\php\ext as 
suggested on some sites.
I went to http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx to install 
php but cannot find it there.
I went to 
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=PHP%3bPHP%3bPHP 
and tried it from from there. Here I received the comment that I can install 
php 5.2.12. I selected it and clicked install and accept. It installed 
successfully. (it must have been the collective auro from this forum helping 
it to get installed cause I promise I tried this about 5 times before and it 
never wanted to install.)
I went to control panel, programs and confirmed php was installed.
I noticed that the php was install under program files on the c drive which 
a lot of people are saying is wrong. but for now I will leave it there.
I opened a command prompt and went to the php folder and ran "php -info" and 
received the output which seems to show it is working.
I opened php.ini and changed the settings as suggested as per 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis7.php
I opened IIS to check the handler mapping and it was configured as 
suggested.

The hotfix/update I saw on 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=70278393-3291-4aa1-870b-0e9b0907bddf&DisplayLang=en. I 
could not isntall it as it complained about the installer service not 
working.

I tried to install the administration pack from 
http://www.iis.net/expand/AdministrationPack which tells me it is not 
supported on my platform.

That is where I am at the moment and still a no go. I will try Don's 
troubleshooting page next. As soon as I have this resolved I will post here.














"Venkat Raman Don" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:3FA2AD39E9964240B4E6DD4AE62E031B45319227@TK5EX14MBXC120.redmond.corp.microsoft.com...
> Hi Morris,
>
> What hotfix you are talking about? There is none to my knowledge required 
> to run PHP. 32-bit PHP runs pretty well on 64-bit OS. This is what user 
> configure. Pierre has already provided you a link to install PHP on IIS7. 
> That should help. A recommended way of running PHP is using IIS FastCGI. 
> If you want to have bare minimum problem, please try Microsoft Web 
> Platform Installer. It will install PHP 5.2.12 for you. You can also go 
> through below blogs of mine where I have explained things in detail. In 
> particular go through the troubleshooting blog which will help you narrow 
> down the problem. An important point, if you prior to doing fresh 
> installation through Web Platform Installer or any other way, please 
> ensure that your current installation is totally wiped out from PHP 
> executable point of view as well as remove any handler mapping you have 
> done in IIS or any registry tweak you have done to load the INI files. 
> Here are the blog link:
>
> http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2009/10/07/installing-php-on-windows.aspx
> http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2009/10/08/upgrading-to-php-5-3-an-easy-way.aspx
> http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2009/11/15/troubleshooting-php-installation-on-windows.aspx
>
> Let me know in case you have any problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Don.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morris [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:53 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] 64-bit PHP binaries
>
> Thanks Pierre. I am going to redo it in the morning. Just a quick one if I
> may. There is a hotfix from microsoft and some admin tools that is 
> suggested
> should be installed. When I try to install it it says I have the incorrect
> software version or operating system. have you come across this on your
> travels with php installs on win2k8?
>
> "Pierre Joye" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Morne Fourie <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, it is all getting a lot clearer now. However, there is still one
>>> more problem. Initially when i deployed PHP on this server I used the 
>>> 5.3
>>> nts version but could not get it working. If i ran the cammand line i
>>> could
>>> see it was working but it would not deliver the pages via a webbrowser.
>>> As
>>> per my earlier post i get a dot net error. This brought me to the point
>>> where i started thinking this is a 64bit issue. I also stated earlier
>>> that i
>>> think there is a setting that is not configured and that is not on the
>>> documentation and that is why it is not working. I however have been
>>> unable
>>> to figure out where the problem is. There is a lot of mention of running
>>> a
>>> command on IIS to get it to run as a 32bit version. Is this true?
>>
>> I run x86 php on my IIS x64 windows just fine (2k3/2k8/2k8R2). There
>> was some extra setting before with the ISAPI, but it is not required
>> anymore as it runs through FastCGI (different process than IIS
>> itself).
>>
>> See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis7.php for a
>> detailed explanation about the FastCGI setup.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- 
>> Pierre
>>
>> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>
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