Hosting a PHP page from a yaws server using FastCGI on WINDOWS

If you are looking for a way to host or run a PHP page on YAWS server using PHP FastCGI process, just follow the below steps.

• Place the PHP file/s in doc root folder
• Change the yaws.conf file to redirect PHP script to run on FastCGI service.

                <server localhost>

                        port = 9009 

                        listen = 0.0.0.0

                        docroot = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Yaws-2.0.2/test"

                        auth_log = true

                        appmods = <cgi-bin, yaws_appmod_cgi>

                        php_handler = <fcgi, 127.0.0.1:54321>

                </server>

• Start the YAWS server and confirm the errors.
• Start the php FastCGI service.
• To start on Windows: 
• Download the XAMPP application from the below link and install it.
• https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
• c:\xampp\php>php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:54321