Microsoft, in
collaboration with PHP products and services provider Zend Technologies Ltd., is
seeking to eliminate this inconvenience through a new IIS component called FastCGI.
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FastCGI greatly improves the way IIS interacts with certain third-party applications
that weren??™t written with IIS in mind, including PHP (versions 5.X and newer are
supported). Though FastCGI wasn??™t intended for use within production environments
at the time of publication, it is ready for testing and development purposes. In this
section you??™ll learn how to configure PHP to run in conjunction with IIS.
Installing IIS and PHP
To begin, download PHP as explained in the earlier section ???Downloading PHP.??? Be
sure to choose the Windows zip package distribution as described in that section.
Extract the zip file to C:\php. Believe it or not, this is all that??™s required in regard to
installing PHP.
Next you??™ll need to install IIS. In order to take advantage of FastCGI, you??™ll need to
install IIS version 5.1 or greater. IIS 5.1 is available for Windows 2000 Professional,
Windows 2000 Server, and Windows XP Professional, whereas IIS 6 is available for
Windows 2003 Server. You can verify whether IIS is installed on these operating
systems by navigating to Start ??¤ Run and executing inetmgr at the prompt. If the IIS
manager loads, it??™s installed and you can proceed to the next section, ???Configuring
FastCGI to Manage PHP Processes.
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