Most of the developers who usually develop both ASP.net
and PHP web applications are facing the following problems.
- How to Setup IIS on windows 7
- How to Run both ASP.net & PHP on the same IIS server.
- How to configure IIS for PHP
- How to run PhpMyAdmin on IIS Server.
Step 1: IIS is not installed by
default on Windows 7 (that's left for the programmers). As a result
you have to manually set up IIS in your machine. You can use the Microsoft® Web
Platform Installer (Web PI) to easily install Internet Information Services
(IIS) and applications that run on IIS. To learn more about the Web PI, see Learn about and install theWeb PI.
Now this article deals with the manual set up of IIS.
Follow the steps => Start -> Control Panel -> Program and features
-> Turn Windows Feature on or off.
Before you begin, first ensure whether your Windows 7 supports IIS or not.
Here is the list of featuressupported by different versions of Windows 7.
By default, you do not have administrative user rights if you are logged on
as a user other than the built-in administrator, even if you were added to the
Local Administrators group on the computer (this is a new security feature in
Windows Server® 2008 called Local User Administrator). Log on either to the
built-in administrator account, or explicitly invoke applications as the
built-in administrator by using the runas command-line tool.
Step 2: Now, simply click on the features that are checked on the following screens and then hit the OK button.
Step
3:
A progress bar will appear.
If installation is successful, then you will see the following screen:
Step
5: Now
you can use Internet Information Services Manager to manage and configure IIS.
To open IIS Manager, click Start, type inetmgr in the Search
Programs and Files box, and then press Enter.
Step
6: Up
to step 5 we have installed IIS on our computer. Now we have to configure php
on our IIS so that we can run both ASP.NET and PHP website on the same server.
The easiest way for that is to install Web Plateform Installer. You can
download it from here. http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Step
7: After
downloading Web Plateform Installer. Install wpilauncher. Installation Screen
is:
Step 8: After Successful installation
of Web Plateform Installer. You will get this Screen.
Step
9:
Close the Web Plateform Installer. And Open IIS Manager. Click Start, type inetmgr
in the Search Programs and Files box, and then press Enter.
Here you will get the Web Plateform Installer. As
shown in the figure.
Step
10: In
order to configure PHP follow the Steps => Double Click on Web platform Installer Icon -> Select Products from the Tab -> Select Frameworks from left menu -> you
will find PHP 5.4.24 with other version
-> Click its Add button which version you want (I will recommended PHP5.4.24 version)
-> finally click on Install
It will take several minutes to download and
Install.
Step
11:
Once Installation is finished. Restart the IIS from IIS Manager. Go to the path
“C:\inetpub\wwwroot”
Step
12: Now we will test our server is configured for
both ASP.NET and PHP. Next Create a folder “phpinfo”
Step
13: Create
a index.php file in phpinfo folder and write the following Code.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now this page is showing that PHP is running successfully on your IIS server instead of apache so there is no need to install XAMPP or WAMP server separately to run PHP on windows PC.
Similarly you can create an index.aspx file using notepad and type the following code.
<%@ Page
Language="C#"
ContentType="text/html"
ResponseEncoding="utf-8"
%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<% Response.Write("Hello World
From ASP.Net"); %>
</body>
</html>
Now Type the URL: http://localhost/phpinfo/index.aspx
Now this page is showing that ASP.Net is running successfully on your IIS server.
Step
15: Since
PHP is compatible with MySql So you can install MySQL also with Web Platform
Installer and its steps is similar to Step 10. In order to install MySql follow
the Steps => Double Click on Web
platform Installer Icon -> Select Products
from the Tab -> Select database from
left menu -> you will find MySQL
Windows 5.1 -> Click its Add button -> finally click on Install. Once
it will start to install it will ask a password for MySQL which is mandatory so
put an easy password for your MySQL.
Step
16: In
this step we will install PhpMyAdmin on IIS Server to operate MySQL databases. First
we have to download PhpMyAdmin. Go to the Url : http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php
and download that version of PhpMyAdmin which is compatible with MySQL 5.1. I will recommended to
download PhpMyAdmin 4.2.2 and It can be download directly from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/4.2.2/phpMyAdmin-4.2.2-all-languages.zip/download
Step
17: Once
download is completed. Extract the file and rename it from “phpMyAdmin-4.2.2-all-languages”
to phpMyAdmin. Now copy phpMyAdmin Folder and paste it to IIS default webroot
folder. As shown in figure.
Step
18: Now
Restart IIS from IIS Manager.
Step 19: Open your browser
and type the URL: http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Step
20:
Default user name is root. And type your password which given in Step 15. After
Login What you will see that it is running on Microsoft-IIS/7.5. As shown in
figure.
Hence
what we have learnt in this tutorial.
- How to SET UP IIS on windows 7
- How to Run both ASP.net & PHP on the same IIS server.
- How to configure IIS for PHP
- How to run PhpMyAdmin on IIS Server.
Thanking You!
