PHP now requires Visual C++ Redistributable

[Mr. Mangus]

Symptoms:
You are trying to setup latest PHP on Windows, and you are getting  this error:

 
HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error
C:\YourPath\php-cgi.exe – The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly
Error Code 0xc0000135
 

To fix this you need to download and install very small (7MB) something called Visual C++ Redistributable – vcredist_x64.exe from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

 

Hope this will save you countless hours trying to fix this error.  When you downloading latest PHP from http://windows.php.net/download/ notice the side bar:

The VC11 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 x86 or x64 installed.

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