PHP installation on windows

As far as I can see there are no MSI installers for PHP 5.4.x available from http://windows.php.net/

Additionally, since PHP 5.3 there are no MSI installers available that work together with the binaries from apache.org and you have to use the binaries from http://www.apachelounge.com/

First: go to www.php.net and click on downloads, or go directly to
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
http://windows.php.net/download

Choose the latest PHP x.y.z (Current stable) For IIS, download the non-threadsafe zip file

2. Extract the downloaded zip file to c:\PHP

3. Download PHP-Manager for IIS 7 (that's an IIS-controlpanel-extension, also works for IIS 8) from https://github.com/phpmanager/phpmanager/releases‎ (make sure you choose the right bitness (32 vs. 64)

4. Open the IIS management console (inetmgr.exe)

5. Double-click PHP-Manager and click on "register new PHP installation"
   (note to self: never remove the PHP directory, otherwise "rien ne va plus")

6. Choose php-cgi.exe and click ok
7. Click on "Configure error reporting". Check "Development machine" and click apply, then click "back to main page"
8. Go to C:\inetpub\wwwroot and create a new textfile called "phpinfo" and put this content into it :

<?php phpinfo(); // Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL ?>

Create a new file called hello.php in c:\inetpub\wwroot with this content
<?php echo "Hello World !" ; ?>

10. open cmd.exe and execute "iisreset"

11. Use your browser of choice, and navigate to those pages:
    http://localhost/phpinfo.php
http://localhost/helloworld.php
    

Now IIS is (should be) serving PHP.

Try this direct link: http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/

You will find some old msi distributions...

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*** Files now moved to http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/archives/

windows.php.net/download/.

Read the sidebar there to determine which one you should download. The MSI versions are the ones labelled "Installer".