PHP 5.4 available in Windows Azure Web Sites

I’m happy to share that PHP 5.4 is now available in Windows Azure Web Sites! You have always been able to install a custom PHP runtime in Web Sites, but now you can have PHP 5.4 available with the click of a button. And, you can customize the runtime (add/enable extensions, modify configuration settings). Details are in the instructions and links below…

1. Create a website. Any of the following articles will walk you through how to do this.

• How to Create and Deploy a Website
• Create a PHP-MySQL website and deploy using Git
• Create and deploy a PHP-MySQL website using WebMatrix

2. Click on the name of your site in the Windows Azure Portal:

3. Browse to the CONFIGURE tab, and select PHP 5.4 (notice that PHP 5.3 is enabled by default):

4. Click SAVE at the bottom of the screen:

If you browse to a script that calls phpinfo(), you should see this:

Of course, you can always revert back to PHP 5.3. And, you can still customize the built-in PHP runtime, or you can provide your own customized PHP runtime: How to configure PHP in Windows Azure Web Sites.

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Thanks.

-Brian

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 18, 2012
  Can I run ionCube with this version of PHP? It requires being able to specify ZEND_EXTENSION somehow. Do I still need my own standalone implementation of PHP for that?

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2012
  Hi Mike: I haven't tried to enable ionCube with this version of PHP. Have you tried enabling a Zend extension as shown in this post (can't recall if I mentioned this in the forums): blogs.msdn.com/.../how-to-enable-xdebug-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx. That post shows how to enable XDebug, also a Zend extension.

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2012
  Mike, My PHP website is attempting to make a call to a compiled program and is failing with the error exec(): Unable to fork. Searching around shows that this is probably a permissions issue, and that I could provide the proper permissions to the IUSR account, but Azure websites don't allow this level of control. Is it possible for PHP to make a call to a compiled program in azure websites?

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2012
  I meant to address Brian, sorry about that. Thanks in advance for your help Brian...

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  February 15, 2013
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