I found myself with the need to install PHP, MySQL and FastCGI onto another IIS machine yesterday and was feeling pretty good about myself as I set out on the journey. “I’ve done this a buncha times now…this will be smooth sailing!” Famous last words, right? So I installed Fast CGI. I installed PHP and…
There is nothing quite like the haymaker of old. Coming out of nowhere. Stealing your breath. Forcing you off-kilter. So there I was, updating my localhost copy of WordPress to 3.0 as I had done so many times without a thought on production servers. Come on! This is WordPress. It just works! Before I could…
I just did a fresh install of PHP 5.2.12.12 onto my fresh install of Windows 7 / IIS 7 machine and spent hours dealing with a very common fastCGI crash problem: First, your browser returns: C:\PHP\php-cgi.exe – The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly and further investigation into my event viewer brought me: Faulting application name: php-cgi.exe,…