Notice: This is a discussion thread for comments about the SitePoint article, The Easy Way To Install PHP on Windows.
I’ve installed Web Platform Installer and Acquia Drupal. However, I can’t find IIS manager. Although I have a Program files/IIS Manager folder, there’s no executable file there.
Can you (or anyone) help?
@see: Why do you want to remove your account?
Which version of Windows are you using? It should be located in Control Panel > Administrative Tools.
It’s funny that I stumbled across the article when I did. I’ve used this installer three times recently and each time it didn’t work. It installed PHP, but didn’t actually wire IIS to use PHP.
I ended up downloading PHP from php.net and using a couple of cscript commands from the site to get the job done.
I had issues with IIS on Win2003 and Win2003 64bit. Maybe it works great for Win2008, I don’t know.
Also, when you install it yourself from php.net, you can get the latest stable version.
Not only was I disappointed with the installer, but there are so many HowTo articles for configuring IIS6 and PHP that are flat wrong.
My recommendation: go to php.net. The binaries and instructions are all there.
you can also download and install xampp which comes with php and mysql all in one with ftp and phpmyadmin and email servers too