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The source code of BlueSpice is based on the scripting language "PHP". It must be installed on your server in order to operate BlueSpice. The steps listed here are required.


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PHP is not installed with a "classic installation package" but the sources are downloaded and integrated into IIS via the PHP Manager that you installed in the previous step.

Download

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Open the officical download page for Windows auf php.net (1).

Find the currently most recent version 7.4.x (2) 64-bit Non Thread Safe (3) and download it (4):

PHP 01


Follow the download instructions.


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Please note that BlueSpice is not compatible with PHP 8.x at this time.


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In the following steps, we use PHP-Version 7.4.28 which only serves as an example for the latest version 7.4.x that is available at the time of your download.

Unpacking the zip-archive

Setting the environment variable

Checking the environment variable

Configuring IIS for PHP

Next step

If you have successfully completed all of the above steps, go to the next step: MariaDB.



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