title: Installing PHP from binaries download on Windows XP
body: <p>After downloading and extracting "php-5.4.3-Win32-VC9-x86.zip" on Windows XP, I tried running each of these files (one at a time), and they all bring up a Windows dialog and do nothing.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>php.exe
  php-win.exe
  php-cgi.exe
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I installing PHP incorrectly by running these files?</p>
  
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  <h1>update: 5/8/2012 @ 4:03pm</h1>
  
  <p><strong>Best tutorial I've found yet.  Although I'm still getting the error below.</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-php-5-on-iis-with-fastcgi.html" rel="nofollow">http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-php-5-on-iis-with-fastcgi.html</a></p>
  
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  <p><strong>Error when navigating to page:</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>CGI Error ... The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:</em></p>
  
  <p>Resolution seems to involve adding this code, but I'm trying to figure out where.</p>
  
  <pre><code>print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";
  print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n\n";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... I placed this code in the top of my PHP file, and the error went away.</p>
  
  <p><strong>This is also a very good tutorial, but doesn't use FastCGI.</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps" rel="nofollow">http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/installing_php_5_iis_5_simple_steps</a></p>
  
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  <p><em><strong>Now my page is blank, but it must be with the Kimai index.php page, because I got the Hello World application to work fine.</em></strong></p>