IIS 10: Web Platform Installer Fails, Manual Install of PHP Not Workin


  1. Posts : 77
    Windows 10 Pro
       #1

    IIS 10: Web Platform Installer Fails, Manual Install of PHP Not Workin


    I am building a new server to replace a nearly 20 year old Dell machine which worked well until a power surge destroyed it last Saturday.

    The old server ran Win 7 and IIS 7.5 smoothly for many years. This is my first time setting up a server on Win 10 pro with IIS 10.

    The new PC is an industrial fanless model that is solar power-friendly and utilized an i5 CPU (2 core, 4 thread). It came pre configured with Win 10 Pro from the manufacturer. It came with one Admin account setup.

    It seems that Web Platform Installer is broken on this version of Windows. The old version worked and I was able to set up my server in about a day. But this new version puts roadblocks at every step of the way. I tried to download PHP using the build in installer, but no matter which version I tried, the download/installation failed.

    Forums posts told me to look at iis.log, but when I attempt to read it, I get an error telling me that my admin account lacks sufficient privileges to open the file! As a result, I have not been able to troubleshoot this problem nor provide the requested log to others who were trying to help me.

    It seems like everything is locked down on this version of Win 10.
    I've installed Win 10 on several other PCs over the past 3 years and never encountered oddness like this before.

    Anyway, to get around the installer issue, I searched for PHP and manually installed it. I was able to register new PHP version, but when I click checkPHPverson() button, I get a 500 error.

    I need to get PHP running to make my web sites functional again. Can someone explain how to make PHP functional?
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  2. Posts : 10,734
    Windows 11 Workstation x64
       #2

    Try manually installing PHP manager - Releases . phpmanager/phpmanager . GitHub
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  3. Posts : 77
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I ended up installing PHP manually, but it doesn't seem to work. The test page does not appear. I am getting a 500 error instead.

    I spent two days trying to research the solution, and have made several config changes, but PHP will not run!

    - - - Updated - - -

    I made a discovery from watching many videos on setting up PHP.. opening a command prompt and typing in php -m revealed that I had a DLL mismatch. Apparently the version of C++ visual studio was too new. I needed the 2019 version. I manually downloaded that and installed it and PHP now works. It only took me 3 days to figure this out.
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