Windows 2003 & PHP

Boy oh boy. 8 hours of fudging around trying to get php to work on my ancient W2K3 box, I finally succeeded.

I kept getting a FastCGI error. No matter what I did, it always failed. FastCGI 1.5 with PHP 5.5.3 

If you are running into this problem, Here is the solution.

Don't install PHP 5.5 --  it won't work no matter what you do. There is no known documentation on it as far as I can tell (y'all can correct me if I am wrong). I just happened to run across some random post somewhere about someone with the same problem.  After 8 hours of pulling my hair out and basically rebuilding my OS from the ground up, I decided to try downgrading one version of PHP and like magic. it all fell into place.

This is my random post on it. If I help one person solve the issue, then I have succeeded in life .. enjoy.

Is 5.5.x even considered a stable release?

Should not be running it anyway. 5.4 is the best bet right now.

Does not surprise me tho. XP and 2003 support was dropped in version 5.5. http://us1.php.net/manual/en/migration55.incompatible.php

Off topic you will be happy to know that my new comic mod i am working on http://www.deanbassett.com does proper sharing unlike most dolphin modules. I know how much you complained about that recently. The sharing is built in tho. Could not utilize dolphins share block, but hey, it works.

Ok, back on topic now. Stick with php 5.4. I don't even think dolphin even runs properly on php 5.5.

it will run on php 5.5 but some of dolphin code comes up with strict standards warnings..   so you just have to silence those in php.ini.

and use php 5.5 is stable it has been for some time now. 

 I have fixed some issues and disabled E_STRICT errors to run 7.0.9. Its working fine so far with php-fpm 5.5.3

 I'm not running Dolphin on my W2K3 machine. this is for another project. I think 5.5 is stable if your hardware is up to date, mine is not. I checked and rechecked everything and it flat would not run. Got a FastCGI error each time I tried to load a page. Reducing to 5.4 immediately solved it. In other words, my conflict was not with the site I am trying to run but the antiquated server I am trying to run it on.

 LOL Yes that is considered a stable release, the reason it breaks Dolphin is because Dolphin uses depreciated functions. This means that we can't use a lot of the new features of PHP.