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            <h1>How to Install PHP for Windows Internet Information Services (IIS)</h1>
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          <h2>What is IIS (Internet Information Services)?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows&reg; Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS&#39;s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks. -<a href="https://www.iis.net/" target="_blank">https://www.iis.net/</a></em></blockquote>

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<h2>What is PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)?</h2>

<blockquote><em>A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.<br />
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. -<a href="https://www.php.net/" target="_blank">https://www.php.net/</a></em></blockquote>

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<p>NOTE: This tutorial assumes IIS is already installed and running on the host. Check out this previous tutorial to find out how to install IIS <a href="https://youtu.be/Gia2dmFrNxs" target="_blank">here</a></p>

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	<li>Log into the Windows server with an account with admin privileges</li>
	<li>Download the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) VS16 x64 PHP for Windows .zip <a href="https://windows.php.net/download/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_917989_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++ </label><label for="cb_li_917989_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded PHP for Windows .zip file</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder PHP</li>
	<li>Cut the PHP folder to a safe location to run from, such as C:\Program Files</li>
	<li>Click the Start button &gt; Search Control &gt; Click Control Panel</li>
	<li>Click on System &gt; Advanced system settings</li>
	<li>Click the Environment Variables...</li>
	<li>Edit the System Path variable</li>
	<li>Click the New button</li>
	<li>Add the PHP installation directory (ie C:\Program Files\PHP\</li>
	<li>Click OK to all open dialog windows</li>
	<li>Launch Server Manager from the Start</li>
	<li>Click Add roles and features</li>
	<li>Click Next on the Before you begin screen</li>
	<li>Select Role-based or feature-based installation &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Leave Select a server from the server pool selected and select the current Windows server &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Expand Web Server (IIS) &gt; Expand Web Server &gt; Expand Application Development &gt; Check the box next to CGI to select it</li>
	<li>Click Next</li>
	<li>Click Next on the Select features screen</li>
	<li>Click Install on the confirmation screen</li>
	<li>Leave the installation progress screen open until the install completes</li>
	<li>Once the Feature installation completes successfully, click the Close button</li>
	<li>Back in Server Manager, click Tools &gt; Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager</li>
	<li>Click the server name to select it &gt; Double click Handler Mappings</li>
	<li>Click Add Module Mapping at the top right of the dialog</li>
	<li>Complete the Add Module Mapping form as follow
	<p>Request Path: *.php<br />
	Module: FastCGIModule<br />
	Executable: C:\Program Files\PHP\php-cgi.exe<br />
	Name: PHP</p>
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	<li>Click OK</li>
	<li>Click Yes to confirm creating the FastCGI application</li>
	<li>Click the server name again to select it and return to the main options menu &gt; Double click Default Document</li>
	<li>Click Add... at the top right of the dialog</li>
	<li>Type index.php &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Right click on the server name &gt; Stop</li>
	<li>Right click on the server name again &gt; Start</li>
	<li>Expand the server name &gt; Expand sites &gt; Right click on Default web Site &gt; Select Explore</li>
	<li>A File Explorer window will display the wwwroot folder for IIS</li>
	<li>Right click in the whitespace &gt; New &gt; Text Document &gt; Name the new file phpinfo.php</li>
	<li>Edit phpinfo.php in Notepad and paste the following
	<p>&lt;?php<br />
	&emsp;phpinfo();<br />
	?&gt;</p>
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	<li>Save the changes to phpinfo.php and close Notepad</li>
	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpinfo.php</li>
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