I wanted to setup PHP on my IIS server (Server 2012). Used the Web Platform Installer (because my server knowledge is nearly none) to install some PHP versions and activated 5.4.24 as the current one. Afterwards I enabled CGI by going into Handler Mappings. When I then try to run a basic php script just an echo "test" or phpinfo() I get a 500 server error.
I've gone through several of the topics already on google or stackoverflow but so far I haven't really found a point to start looking into this further. Can this be something related to rights? Because after I installed PHP plesk also failed which was due to rights not being set.