Build http server with Nginx + PHP in windows

Step1. Download required resources.

• Nginx for windows
• PHP binary for windows
• RunHiddenConsole.exe — a tiny tool to run program with hidden console (md5sum is abc6379205de2618851c4fcbf72112eb)

Step2. Extract downloaded files

• extract Nginx to c:\nginx
• extract PHP to c:\nginx\php
• place RunHiddenConsole.exe in c:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe

Step3. Configure Nginx with PHP

Edit c:\nginx\conf\nginx.conf to uncomment sections of PHP and set path of your php script(I set as Nginx root path html):

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000  
location ~ \.php$ {  
	root           html;  
	fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;  
	fastcgi_index  index.php;  
	fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  html$fastcgi_script_name;
	include        fastcgi_params;  
}  

Step4. create batch scripts start-nginx.bat and stop-nginx.bat in c:\nginx

start-nginx.bat to start service

RunHiddenConsole c:\nginx\php\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000 -c c:\nginx\php\php.ini  
c:\nginx\nginx.exe  

[stop-nginx.bat] to stop service

@ECHO OFF  
taskkill /f /IM nginx.exe  
taskkill /f /IM php-cgi.exe  

Step5. Run c:\nginx\start-nginx.bat then your Nginx+PHP HTTP server is

ready!