How to set up PHP on IIS8

IIS 8 is a stable and reliable web server that provides excellent performance and reliability for your website. At the same time, it can also run PHP scripts on Windows operating systems. Because the Windows operating system does not come with a PHP environment, we need to manually configure IIS 8 to run PHP scripts.

This article will introduce how to set up PHP on IIS 8 and provide you with a simple and easy-to-understand guide.

1. Install PHP

First of all, you need to install PHP on IIS 8 to run PHP scripts. You can install PHP through the following steps:

1. Download the PHP installation package and extract it to a directory, such as "C:\php".

2. Open the IIS 8 management tool, select "Application Pool", create an independent application pool for PHP, and set the hosting mode to "Integrated". Then click OK to save these changes.

3. Next, add a "Web Site" and set the "Physical Path" to a folder under your PHP installation directory, such as "C:\php".

4. Enter "Function View", double-click "Handler Mapping", and then click "Add Module Mapping". Enter "*.php" in the "Request Path" box and select "FastCgiModule" in the "Module" box.

5. In the "Executable File" box, browse to the "php-cgi.exe" file in your PHP installation directory, and enter "-d extension_dir= c:\ php\ext" - means looking for PHP modules in the "Extensions" directory. Click OK to save these changes.

6. Finally, restart the "Web site", open the command prompt and enter the "iisreset" command to restart the IIS service to make it effective.

2. Test PHP

After installing PHP, you can test whether PHP is running normally through the following steps:

1. Find a file "phpinfo. php" and copy it to the root directory of the IIS website directory (such as "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\").
2. Enter the "http://localhost/phpinfo.php" address in the browser. If the "phpinfo.php" page can be opened, it means that PHP has been successfully run.

3. Using PHP

Configuring PHP on IIS 8 can help you run PHP applications on Windows operating systems. Next we'll cover how to use PHP with IIS 8.

1. Create a PHP file and enter the following content:

<?php
     echo "Hello, IIS 8 and PHP!";
?>

2. Save the PHP file to the IIS site directory, such as "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ test.php".

3. Open the browser, enter "http://localhost/test.php" in the address bar, and then press Enter.
4. If you follow the above steps, the browser should be able to display the following content: "Hello, IIS 8 and PHP!"

Summary

Through the above steps, it can be simple Quickly set up PHP on IIS 8 to provide reliable and outstanding performance for your website. Hope this article is helpful to you.

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