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<h2 class="title">Windows Installer (PHP 5.1.0 and earlier)</h2>
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The Windows PHP installer is available from the downloads page at
<a href="http://www.php.net/downloads.php" class="link external">» http://www.php.net/downloads.php</a>. This
installs the <em class="emphasis">CGI version</em> of PHP and for IIS, PWS,
and Xitami, it configures the web server as well. The installer does not
include any extra external PHP extensions (php_*.dll) as you'll only find
those in the Windows Zip Package and <acronym title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PECL</acronym> downloads.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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While the Windows installer is an easy way to make PHP work, it is
restricted in many aspects as, for example, the automatic setup of
extensions is not supported. Use of the installer isn't the preferred
method for installing PHP.
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First, install your selected <acronym title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</acronym> (web) server on your
system, and make sure that it works.
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Run the executable installer and follow the instructions provided by the
installation wizard. Two types of installation are supported - standard,
which provides sensible defaults for all the settings it can, and advanced,
which asks questions as it goes along.
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The installation wizard gathers enough information to set up the <var class="filename">php.ini</var>
file, and configure certain web servers to use PHP. One of the web servers
the PHP installer does not configure for is Apache, so you'll need to
configure it manually.
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Once the installation has completed, the installer will inform you if you
need to restart your system, restart the server, or just start using PHP.
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<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
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Be aware, that this setup of PHP is not secure. If you would like to have
a secure PHP setup, you'd better go on the manual way, and set every
option carefully. This automatically working setup gives you an instantly
working PHP installation, but it is not meant to be used on online servers.
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