Php – How I Use Microsoft Web Platform Installer offline

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I have a server that's behind a Windows 2012 firewall without Internet access. I need to install PHP on it, and would prefer to use the Web Platform Installer if possible. I can't find any recent information on how to do this, save for this article:

http://www.ca.com/us/support/ca-support-online/product-content/knowledgebase-articles/tec1193892.aspx

When I run the first part, I am able to generate a dump file; however, the file is only 1k and is not readable. As the WebPICMD runs I can see the list being output the screen very quickly, but for some reason it doesn't make it to the file..
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer>WebPICMD.exe /List /ListOption:All>C:\temp\dump.txt

Any feedback on this?

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You can find update documentation for the offline features of web platform installer here

I was able to run the following on my laptop to download the offline install cache for PHP56. It automatically downloads all possible prerequisites.

WebPICMD.exe /Offline /Products:PHP56 /Path:C:\webpioff

You can copy this folder to the server without internet access, launch web platform installer and click the options link on the bottom. You can then browse to and select the file "C:\webpioff\feeds\latest\webproductlist.xml" as your primary feed. Or, in command line:

WebPICMD.exe /Install /Products:PHP56 /XML:C:\webpioff\feeds\latest\webproductlist.xml

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Your best bet would be to download the latest Zip version of PHP from the PHP.net site and get the DLL from that and extract the DLL file from that.

Not sure why its not included with the web platform installer, seems a little odd.

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This link has instructions on how to manually remove a version of PHP from IIS on Windows 7. I would think the instructions for Windows Server 2008 would be similar. It seems to be instructing you to edit the applicationHost.config file and delete the folder.

http://forums.iis.net/t/1178803.aspx

From the link:

Open %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config file and:

Find following entry (or similar entry) in applicationhost.config file and comment it or delete it.

<application fullPath="C:\Program Files\iis express\PHP\v5.2\php-cgi.exe" monitorChangesTo="php.ini" activityTimeout="600" requestTimeout="600" instanceMaxRequests="10000">
    <environmentVariables>
        <environmentVariable name="PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" value="10000" />
        <environmentVariable name="PHPRC" value="C:\Program Files\iis express\PHP\v5.2" />
    </environmentVariables>
</application>

Find following entry in hanlders section and comment this as well or delete.

<add name="PHP52_via_FastCGI" path="*.php" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Program Files (x86)\iis express\PHP\v5.2\php-cgi.exe" resourceType="Either" />

By default Web Platform Installer installs PHP to %programfiles%\iis express\php. so open %programfiles%\iis express\php\ folder and delete the php version folder that you no longer need (don't forget to remove relavant entries from applicationhost.config as mentioned in step 1 and 2 above)

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