note 90268 deleted from install.windows by cmb

Note Submitter: Mark C in SF ---- I hadn't installed PHP in years, used the PHP 5.2.9-2 installer. Selected FastCGI on IIS, I just didn't work. On both a w2k3 server and on a Vista laptop. First, I forget to install from ZIP, as I had before. I suggest a notice on the download page. The message "Use of the installer isn't the preferred method for installing PHP." is on the "Windows Installer (PHP 5.1.0 and earlier)" page. Is that no longer true for "Windows Installer (PHP 5.2 and later)"? Next, I found the recent Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WPI) at http://php.iis.net It just works. There are no config settings, it just installed FastCGI on IIS on the W2k3 server and on the Vista laptop. Took a download+install of the WPI tool, and a few minutes for php install. I'll likely never take a more careful look at what happened; for a production server I'll install manually. (or use Apache :))