Can PHP and ASP.Net run together within the same web site in IIS 7.5?

Question

A portion of our site is done in PHP and a portion of our site is done in ASP.Net. We just set up a new web server with Windows Server 2008 R2 which has IIS 7.5 installed.

Answer 1

Yes, PHP can be seamlessly implemented into ASP.NET 3.5 / 4.0

Go to http://phalanger.codeplex.com/ (or http://www.php-compiler.net/) and download the latest version of Phalanger. Install into Visual Studio and voila!

Phalanger – the PHP compiler for .NET

Welcome to Phalanger – full-featured PHP runtime & compiler for .NET/Mono frameworks. Phalanger is modern open-source implementation of PHP, compatible with the vast array of existing PHP code. In addition Phalanger gives PHP-application developers lot of new possibilities; from improving performance and using modern environments, to taking advantage of seamless unique .NET integration.

Answer 2

Yes, it will be not a problem. Even some Windows Shared Hosts offer PHP plans - Windows Hosting PHP.