I am trying to get PHP working on my vista home machine but I am getting weired problems. First I had file permission problems for which I disabled Vista's UAC. Now I can't get the PHP interpreter working.
I have made all the necessary changes following this tutorial but I still cant get it working. Any help would be appreciated. I need to do some urgent work by the weekend, so faster the help comes the better.
Thanks
Try XAMPP. I use that at home on a Vista machine and it worked nicely after the install.
You can use FastCGI for IIS 7. I'm using this also and it works perfectly!!
iis7 is one of the best web servers and especially for php, if you can't get it to work it means you need to google enough, because it isn't logical to blame Vista for php/apache issues
WAMPServer is also a good option. You can easily enable/disable both PHP extensions and Apache 2 modules. Everything is set up somewhat securely (only local access to the serve), and you get phpMyAdmin already set up.
Only thing I've ever missed is Memcached, but that is fairly easy to set up on your own.
You can try Zend Core
It works on both IIS and Apache (it includes the installation of the Apache)
The only problem I have installing PHP and Apache on Vista is that you need to make sure that when you edit the httpd.conf that you are editing it as an admin, otherwise the file is saved in compatibility mode.
To overcome that problem just type notepad++ or whatever in your start menu, right click the item and run as administrator. Then open the file from the app.