title: Upgrading from PHP 5.2.9-2 to 5.6.29 on IIS 7, Windows Server 2008
body: <p>We have a web server that is currently running Windows Server 2008 Standard and IIS 7. It is a self-hosted Wordpress website. We have been running PHP version 5.2.9-2 for a while now and were recently told that this is a security issue and that we should be on PHP 5.6.</p>
  
  <p>I researched online and have seen a lot of information about installing PHP from scratch on a web server, but I haven't found much about upgrading an existing install, especially going from one as old as 5.2 to 5.6.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything we should be aware of in doing this type of upgrade? Or would the process go pretty much the same as if it weren't such a large version jump, drag and drop the new files, update the php.ini, etc.?</p>