php 7.4 + nginx quick start on Windows 10 / Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019

This article shows you how to quick install and integrate Nginx and PHP on Windows-based systems.

1. Install Nginx + PHP

Basically, just download zip file and extracts it, no installation.

To install Nginx

1. Visit http://nginx.org/en/download.html
2. Download to c:\web

nginx/Windows-1.19.8

1. Extract to C:\web\

To Install PHP

1. Visit http://windows.php.net/download/
2. Download PHP For Windows: Binaries and sources Releases (7.4 -nts-vc15-x64)
3. Extract to C:\web\php

Edit file c:\web\conf\nginx.conf

location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.html index.htm index.php;
        }


        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9999;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }

Then run:

php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9999

and run nginx…

start c:\web\nginx.exe

That’s all…

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