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.

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.

I tried setting up a new fake/empty WordPress on my server with a new/empty database – and magically it all worked (the install wizard and I did a test post).

SO – apparently my existing wordpress database has some permission (or other) issue? So now my quest is how to get my existing wordpress database fixed.

I guess my general PHP/FastCGI/WordPress/IIS6 setup is all ok – I’m just looking at some odd MySQL issue?

Ideas?

Thanks again for putting up w/my techsupport spam.

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Extensions used in order of activation:

1.) extension=php_xmlrpc.dll (no problems)

2.) extension=php_mysql.dll (as soon as I activate this one my database-hitting wordpress *.php pages produce the white page of death [couple garbage characters and a subtle 500 error - can only see the 500 error via firebug/fiddler]).

3.) extension=php_mysqli.dll – no change – same situation as #2

4.) extension=php_gd2.dll – no change – same situation as #2

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Also, FYI more info on my setup:

IIS6:
1.) an Application Configuration mapping on my top/root website for .php set to:
- [%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll]
- All verbs
- Script Engine [checked]
- Verify File Exists [checked]

2.) a web service extension called FastCGI Handler set to:
- Allowed
- C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll

PHP:
1.) Installed in c:\program files\php
2.) Path env var includes path to c:\program files\php\ext
3.) PHPRC env var set to c:\program files\php

FastCGI:
1.) 1.5 RC installed
2.) with following INI settings
[PHP]
ExePath=c:\Program Files\PHP\php-cgi.exe
Arguments=-c c:\Windows\php.ini
EnvironmentVars=PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS:10000
InstanceMaxRequests=10000
ActivityTimeout=1800

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Thanks for your help

Also, which version of PHP do you have?