Installing PHP on IIS

The fastest and easiest way to install PHP on IIS is using Microsoft’s Web Platform installer. It completely automates setting up IIS, FastCGI and the latest version of PHP from the php.net site. To install it, just click this button:

Web Platform Installer

Also included in the installer are ready packaged popular web applications currently including:

Drupal, DotNetNuke, Photo Gallery, Wiki, SilverStripe CMS, Umbraco and Wordpress.

Now we just need Microsoft to add MySQL and we’re sorted!

Enable PING on Windows Server 2008

On your Server machine, at a command prompt, type the following

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

If you want to turn it off again later, type the following

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable