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Install SilverStripe manually on Windows using IIS 6

How to prepare Windows Server 2003 for SilverStripe using IIS 6 and FastCGI.

This guide will work for the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2003 R2

Database install and configuration is not covered here, it is assumed you will do this yourself.

PHP comes with MySQL support out of the box, but you will need to install the SQL Server Driver for PHP from Microsoft if you want to use SQL Server.

Preparation

Open Windows Update and make sure everything is updated, including optional updates. It is important that all .NET Framework updates including service packs are installed.

Install IIS

• Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
• Click Add/Remove Windows Components on the left hand bar
• Check Application Server and then click Next to install it

Install FastCGI for IIS

• Download and install this package: http://www.iis.net/download/fastcgi

• Open inetmgr.exe

• Right click Web Sites and go to Properties

• Click the Home Directory tab

• Click Configuration... then Add

• In the Add/Edit Extension Mapping dialog, click Browse... and navigate to fcgiext.dll which is located in %windir%\system32\inetsrv

• In the Extension text box, enter .php

• Under Verbs in the Limit to text box, enter GET,HEAD,POST

• Ensure that the Script engine and Verify that file exists boxes are checked then click OK

• Open fcgiext.ini located in %windir%\system32\inetsrv. In the [Types] section of the file, add php=PHP

• Create a new section called [PHP] at the bottom of the file, like this:

  [PHP] ExePath=c:\php5\php-cgi.exe

Finally, run these commands in Command Prompt

cd %windir%\system32\inetsrv
cscript fcgiconfig.js -set -section:"PHP" -InstanceMaxRequests:10000
cscript fcgiconfig.js -set -section:"PHP" -EnvironmentVars:PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS:10000
cscript fcgiconfig.js -set -section:"PHP" -ActivityTimeout:300

Install PHP

• Download PHP (Zip link underneath the VC9 x86 Non Thread Safe section)

• Download WinCache (WinCache 1.1 for PHP 5.3)

• Extract the PHP zip contents to c:\php5

• Run the WinCache self-extractor and extract to c:\php5\ext. A file called php_wincache.dll should now reside in c:\php5\ext

• Rename php.ini-development to php.ini in c:\php5

• Open php.ini, located in c:\php5 with Notepad or another editor like Notepad++

• Search for date.timezone, uncomment it by removing the semicolon and set a timezone from here: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

• Search for fastcgi.impersonate, uncomment it by removing the semicolon and set it like this: fastcgi.impersonate = 1

• Search for cgi.fix_pathinfo, uncomment it by removing the semicolon and set it like this: cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

• Search for cgi.force_redirect, uncomment it by removing the semicolon and set it like this: cgi.force_redirect = 0

• Search for fastcgi.logging, uncomment it by removing the semicolon and set it like this: fastcgi.logging = 0

• Search for extension_dir and make sure it looks like this: extension_dir = "ext" (use proper double quotation characters here)

• Find the "Dynamic Extensions" part of the file, and replace all extension entries with the following:

  ;extension=php_bz2.dll extension=php_curl.dll ;extension=php_enchant.dll ;extension=php_exif.dll ;extension=php_fileinfo.dll extension=php_gd2.dll ;extension=php_gettext.dll ;extension=php_gmp.dll ;extension=php_imap.dll ;extension=php_intl.dll ;extension=php_ldap.dll extension=php_mbstring.dll extension=php_mysql.dll extension=php_mysqli.dll ;extension=php_oci8.dll ;extension=php_oci8_11g.dll ;extension=php_openssl.dll ;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll ;extension=php_pdo_oci.dll ;extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll ;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll ;extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll ;extension=php_pgsql.dll ;extension=php_shmop.dll ;extension=php_snmp.dll ;extension=php_soap.dll ;extension=php_sockets.dll ;extension=php_sqlite3.dll ;extension=php_sqlite.dll extension=php_tidy.dll extension=php_wincache.dll ;extension=php_xmlrpc.dll ;extension=php_xsl.dll

This is a minimal set of loaded extensions which will get you started.

If want to use SQL Server as a database, you will need to install the SQL Server Driver for PHP and add an extension entry for it to the list above.

Test PHP

• Open Command Prompt and type the following: c:\php5\php.exe -v

You should see some output showing the PHP version. If you get something else, or nothing at all, then there are missing updates for your copy of Windows Server 2003. Open Windows Update and make sure you've updated everything including optional updates.

Install SilverStripe

• Download SilverStripe
• Extract the download contents to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\silverstripe
• Open inetmgr.exe
• Right click Web Sites and go to New > Web Site
• Fill in all appropriate details. If you enter (All Unassigned) for the IP address field, make sure the port is something other than 80, as this will conflict with "Default Web Site" in IIS. When asked for path, enter C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\silverstripe
• Browse to http://localhost:8888 or to the IP address you just assigned in your browser.

An installation screen should appear. There may be some permission problems, which you should be able to correct by assigning the Users group write permissions by right clicking files / folders in Windows Explorer and going to Properties then the Security tab.

When ready, hit Install SilverStripe.

SilverStripe should now be installed and you should have a basic site with three pages.

However, URLs will not look "nice", like this: http://localhost/index.php/about-us. In order to fix this problem, we need to install a third-party URL rewriting tool, as IIS 6 does not support this natively.

Proceed to Install IIRF below to enable nice URLs.

Install IIRF

At the moment, all URLs will have index.php in them. This is because IIS does not support URL rewriting. To make this work, we need to install IIRF which is a third-party plugin for IIS.

• Download IIRF and install it
• Create a new file called iirf.ini in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\silverstripe with this content RewriteEngine On MaxMatchCount 10 IterationLimit 5

  URLs with query strings

  Don't catch successful file references

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)?(.+)$ /sapphire/main.php?url=$1&$2

  URLs without query strings

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /sapphire/main.php?url=$1

Friendly URLs should now be working when you browse to your site.

Remember that IIRF works on a per-virtual host basis. This means for each site you want IIRF to work for, you need to add a new entry to Web Sites in inetmgr.exe.

Thanks to kcd for the rules: http://www.silverstripe.org/installing-silverstripe/show/10488#post294415