Windows 10: IIS 10: Web Platform Installer Fails to Install PHP, etc

I built my web server 15 years ago and it ran pretty much maintenance free until a power outage on Saturday killed the motherboard. I've since bought a new PC with Windows 10 Pro installed. Now I'm trying to replicate my web server, but I'm running into several issues. The present issue is that I cannot install PHP and FastCGI. I installed the Web Platform Installer and followed Microsoft instructions to get the PHP and CGI, however, when I download and install them, the following errors appear: "We're sorry, the following products have failed to install" followed by a long list of items, th

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PHP Manager for IIS on Windows 10

I have an AMD Fx-4100, Nvidia gtx 660, 8gb ddr 3. I love windows 10 but I'm a web developer. I've used IIS 8 on windows server 2012 r2 several times, php manager works fine. it does appear that php manager is incompatable with windows 10. Unfortunately I
think me and a lot of other webapp developers won't be able to use windows 10 until this is resived. It's a crying shame.

if I try to use the web platform component installer it just tells me it failed. if I try to download it and install it php manager says it needs IIS 7 or higher.

in a seperate line of inquiry, why have you made it so difficult to design unsigned drivers, innovative people like to think outside of the box and your stomping my creativity by making the system so idiot proof that a person who knows what he's doing can't
get in and customize things or create things.

 

Using Web Platform Installer 2.0

A mini-review of Microsoft's latest all-in-one web package installer...

For a few years now I've been working mostly with Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP), but at a previous position we ran IIS6. Configuration wasn't always straight forward and some PHP modules weren't available in Windows, among other problems. Lets see how it's progressed since then.

First, I created a 2 CPU/2GB VM for Windows Web Server 2008 R2 for it to be installed on. The situation should be similar for the other platforms supported. Requirements, supported platforms, and the installer can be found here.

Started from a completely fresh install. Didn't assign the Web Server Role (Programs/Features in Vista/7, Add/Remove Programs in XP) to see how much Web PI would handle on it's own. After starting the application, I even skipped choosing any of the Web Platform choices instead selecting a single Web Application package: Gallery.






Excellent! Dependencies selected.






Oh! Simultaneous download and installation? Someone at MS finally woke up and said Hey! Let's actually utilize the power of the common PC *Wink






Site configuration, as well as database creation.






Success! Configuration of the package proceeds normally.






Note: For packages such as Gallery and Drupal that require a database, make sure to write down the database/user/password that you used during site configuration as Web PI simply adds the database and user to the server, but you will still need to provide this information during package configuration.






I didn't see phpMyAdmin in the list for those who would like get their hands dirty in the bits, but that's ok, I would recommend Navicat anyway.






In the end, not bad. Plenty of popular packages are provided for people who just want to get up and running, but even if you just want the installation of PHP/MySQL on a Windows machine, Web PI will save you time as well. Even creates a shortcut for php.ini configuration. Awwwee cute.

 

Running PHP codes on my Windows 10 Home platform.

I would like to run PHP codes on my Windows 10 Home platform. I have installed MS Visual Studio Community 2015. Do I need IIS to run PHP codes? I research and it is not clear what to do next. I use PHP at other server (not mine) alot. I d like to
practice PHP at home.