Setting up IIS 10 & PHP 7
By Dag, on December 30th, 2016Some reminder notes for setting up a working IIS and PHP environment.
- Install the IIS role/feature w/CGI support.
- Download (NTS / Non-Thread Safe) and unzip at e.g. C:\PHP
- Register index.php as standard document
- Check settings in php.ini
fastcgi.impersonate = 1
fastcgi.logging = 0
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
cgi.force_redirect = 0
date.timezone = "Europe/Oslo"
- Modules I'd like to add as a minimum:
extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
- Add a "Module Mapping" to "Handler Mappings" in IIS:
Request path: *.php
Module: FastCgiModule
Executable: C:\[Path to PHP installation]\php-cgi.exe
Name: PHP_via_FastCGI
+ Request Restrictions: "File or folder"
- Install Visual C++ 2015 redist (x86 version) to avoid 500 server error.
Extra
- Enforce SSL per site and set up a 403.4 error page with a 302 redirect URL
for easy HTTPS enforcement.
- Remember that a PHP log file will require sufficient write permissions to be
created and updated. E.g. all rights to IUSR and CN\IIS_IUSRS.
- Tune the server FastCGI settings for max processes and requests.
- If using a directory that opendir() doesn't like to cleanup sessions from,
I just use powershell to remove the ones that are more than 24 hours old:
Get-ChildItem "PATH" | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-24)} | Remove-Item