IIS 7.5 PHP failure “The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly”

Question

I\'ve been attempting to get PHP working with IIS 7.5 and have hit a bit of a roadblock. Whenever I try to load the page I get the following error:

\"HTTP Error 500.

Answer 1

I had this problem when I was configuring PHP 5.4.17(32-bit).

To fix it I had to install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 and it worked fine after installing this update.