Comments on: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 and PHP 5.3 on IIS 7

By: Roch

Roch — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:15:57 +0000

What I am looking to do is similar. I am looking to have a static page as well as the blog appear on the main page of my wordpress site. Right now going to the settings section will only allow me to do one or the other. any feedback would be appreciated. Is there a special PHP INCLUDE tag I should be using for both to appear?

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:27:23 +0000

Hi Galvar,

Are you running WordPress inside of an intranet behind the proxy. Sometimes when there is a proxy, the account, under which the IIS worker process runs, does not have permissions to access the proxy server. In those cases PHP will not be able to make HTTP requests. A workaround is to run the IIS worker process under the account that has permissions to access proxy server.

By: Gavlar

Gavlar — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:41:34 +0000

one thing im having issues with is on IIS i cant get DNS working via wordpress, and it seems even a basic php call to gethostbyname() call times out too. it therefore makes the wordpress install run very slow when its trying to get rss feeds. there is a lot of advice on apache wordpress installs, but not IIS. any thoughts?

error from the feeds is WP HTTP Error : Could not resolve host: wordpress.org.

curl is installed.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:35:39 +0000

Yes! Michael, after myself spending 2 days on this, discovered the same thing.. removing ipv6 entry for localhost in the host file fixed it. phpmyadmin now connects, and I’m sure wordpress will install…

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:33:58 +0000

I spent a long time finding the problem for my 500 error.
PHP just could not connect to the MySQL database server.
Turned out that localhost by default points to ::1 and not to 127.0.0.1
And MySQL does not listen on the IPv6 localhost IP.
You can change this in the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file.

By: BuddyRich

BuddyRich — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:44:16 +0000

I’ve determined it was just a lack of primetime for the x64 5.3 builds of PHP right now. I tried the same snapshot version of 32bit binaries and set the app pool to 32bit compatibility and they worked as well, so its something specific to the x64 builds. Funny that they give me a simple page but not anything that hits a database, pointing to an issue with the compiled mysql or mysqli extension perhaps?

Given that on the windows.php.net site there are no stable x64 releases, and only nightly snapshot builds, the above might be why there are no stable x64 builds linked.

Either way I am up and running save I had to disable URL rewrites for my Gallery2 install as it only supports the helicon 2 isapi solution on IIS (though I did see a hack to get the helicon isapi v3 solution by forcing the mod_apache rewrite methods to be used via .htaccess files which helicon v3 natively supports). Its also a shame to see them discontinue IIS support in the Gallery3 rewrite and only support apache.

On the other hand wordpress 2.8.5 is working great with the IIS7 rewrite module.

Thanks for your help.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:51:18 +0000

@BuddyRich: The only thing I can think of that may cause problems is the fact that you have wordpress files in C:\Program Files\wordpress\. Why not to place them in the recommended IIS location which under C:\inetpub\ ?

By: BuddyRich

BuddyRich — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:38:22 +0000

I’ve followed the guides fairly meticulously but for whatever reason I cannot get the combination of IIS 7.5 (Win7 Pro), PHP 5.3.2 (x64 VC9 NTS build), mysql 5.1.40 x64 and wordpress 2.8.4 running.

I recently upgraded to Win7 necessitating the change to IIS7, so the whole reinstall. Prior to this I was using IIS6 (x64 mode) and an older PHPx64 build from fusionx (so it was 5.2.something) and the isapi.dll on WinXPx64 with no issues, hosting wordpress and gallery2.

I’ve got as far as installing php and configuring the .ini. I can run a simple phpinfo.php and it returns, showing fastcgi as the handler however trying phpmyadmin or wordpress I get an eventual timeout and 500 error. A quick peak in taskman and I don’t see and php-cgi.exe processes running.

I thought it might be the session save path but it gets as far as writting a sess_sjfskjlf file out to the path I specified in php.ini so I don’t think its a permissions issue. I enable a php_errors.log and there is nothing in it either.

The info from the error:

Detailed Error Information
Module FastCgiModule
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler PHP via FastCGI
Error Code 0×00000000
Requested URL http://localhost:80/index.php
Physical Path C:\Program Files\wordpress\index.php
Logon Method Anonymous
Logon User Anonymous

Its all pointing to a permissions issue but I am sure everything is setup correct as far as NTFS permissions go.

Coincidentally if I used everything the same but use the fusionx x64 5.2 PHP built it works.

Is there anyway within IIS to get more detailed logging info? The standard w3svc log just shows the same 500 error, nor is there anything in event viewer.

By: mazyoyo

mazyoyo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:16:44 +0000

great article, its very helpful. thanks for share.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:21:56 +0000

Thank you for providing up to date information regarding PHP on IIS7. After reading your article, I was able to resolve all of my 500 Server errors. Great article! Thanks again.