php-fpm for Windows?

Question

The PHP-FPM\'s homepage http://php-fpm.org/ states that it is part of PHP since PHP 5.3.3. Now, I was wondering, when I download the newest PHP binaries from php.net, there

Answer 1

Alan's answer is a great start. However, for Apache 2.4 and later you do not need to run PHP-FPM as a separate service, you can use mod_fcgid to handle everything within Apache.

Here is an example configuration:

LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so

FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC "c:/php"
FcgidInitialEnv PATH "c:/php;C:/WINDOWS/system32;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem;"
FcgidInitialEnv SystemRoot "C:/Windows"
FcgidInitialEnv SystemDrive "C:"
FcgidInitialEnv TEMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
FcgidInitialEnv TMP "C:/WINDOWS/Temp"
FcgidInitialEnv windir "C:/WINDOWS"
FcgidIOTimeout 64
FcgidConnectTimeout 16
FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess 500


  AddHandler fcgid-script .php
  FcgidWrapper c:/php/php-cgi.exe .php
 

Note, this is based on a post in Apache Lounge. As helpful as it was, their version had quotes around c:/php/php-cgi.exe and if you do that it WILL NOT START php-cgi.exe, at least on Windows Server 2012, and you get HTTP 500. Took me a painful few days to figure that out.