msvcr110 dll is missing from computer error while installing PHP

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I am trying to install PHP 5 5   I extracted the zip file in C  php folder  And I also set the  Path  system variable to C  php  But when I open command prompt and type php I get error saying      The program can t start because MSVCR110 dll is missing from your   computer  Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem    I checked for this dll in C  Windows System32 directory and I could locate the file there  How to get rid of this error   Any help would be appreciated   Thanks in Advance

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I was missing the MSVCR110 dll  Which I corrected  I could run php from the command line but not the web server  Then I clicked on php-cgi exe and it gave me the answer  The php5 dll was missing  I downloaded the wrong copy   So for my 2012 IIS box I re-installed using php s x86 non thread safe zip

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To identify which x86 x64 version of VC is needed   Go to IIS Manager   Handler Mappings   right click then Edit   php path  In the  Executable  optional   field note in which version of Program Files is the php-cgi exe installed

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Since link to this question shows up on very top of returned results when you search for  quot php MSVCR110 dll quot   not to mention it got 100k  views and growing   here re some additional notes that you may find handy in your quest to solve MSVCR110 dll mistery    The approach described in the answer is valid not only for MSVCR110 dll case but also applies when you are looking for other versions  like newer MSVCR71 dll and I updated the answer to include VC15 even it s beyond  scope of the original question   On http   windows php net  you can read   VC9  VC11 and VC15 More recent versions of PHP are built with VC9  VC11 or VC15  Visual Studio 2008  2012 or 2015 compiler respectively  and include improvements in performance and stability  The VC9 builds require you to have the Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 x86 or x64 installed  The VC11 builds require to have the Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 x86 or x64 installed  The VC15 builds require to have the Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86 or x64 installed   This is quite crucial as you not only need to get Visual C   Redistributable installed but you also need the right version of it  and which one is right and correct  depends on what PHP build you are actually going to use  Pay attention to what version of PHP for Windows you are fetching  especially pay attention to this  quot VCxx quot  suffix  because if you install PHP that requires VC9 while having redistributables  VC11 installed it is not going to work as run-time dependency is simply not fulfilled  Contrary to what some may think  you need exactly the version required  as newer  higher  releases does NOT cover older  lower  versions  so i e  VC11 is not providing VC9 compatibility  Also VC15 is neither fulfilling VC11 nor VC9 dependency  It is just VC15 and NOTHING ELSE  Deal with it    For example   archive name php-5 6 4-nts-Win32-VC11-x86 tells us the following   it provides PHP v5 6 4  PHP build is Non-Thread Safe  nts   it provides binaries for Windows  Win32   to run  Visual Studio 2012 redistributable  VC11  is required  binaries are 32-bit  x86    Most searches I did lead to VC9 of redistributables  so in case of constant failures to make thing works  if possible  try installing different PHP build  to see if you by any chance do not face mismatching versions   Download links Note that you are using 32-bit version of PHP  so you need 32-bit redistributable  x86  even if your version of Windows is 64-bit   VC9  Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2008  x86 or x64 VC11  Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012  x86 or x64 VC15  Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015  x86 or x64 VC17  Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017  x86 or x64

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I am on a 64 bit system  and I only got this to work after installing both the 32 and 64 bit versions of the redistributable   I did not try the 64 bit version by itself due to the other posters  warnings about using the 32 bit version  and am too lazy to uninstall the 32 bit version now that I have it working   so I don t know if the 32 bit version is needed or not in cases like mine

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I had installed PHP in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 using the Web Platform Installer  It did not work out of the box  I had to install the Visual C   Redistributable for VS 2012 Update 4  32bit  as found here http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 30679

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You need to install the Visual C   libraries  http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 30679  As mentioned by Stuart McLaughlin  make sure you get the x86 version even if you use a 64-bits OS because PHP needs some 32-bit libraries

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