PHP 8.0 Installation on Windows 10 and Configure Nginx 1.16 Web Server for PHP 8 | PHP 8 released

In this video we are going to see how to install and configure php 8 on Windows 10 with Nginx Web Server 1.16.
Installation method is offline. Make sure you have downloaded the php 8 non thread safe package (php-8.0.0-nts-Win32-vs16-x64) which contains php-cgi.exe to get integrated with Nginx Http Server.
After watching this video we will learn.
1. how to start the php-cgi.exe process as fast-cgi daemon.
2. how to use fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:port_number; in the NGINX configuration file.
3. Finally run the welcome.php file via nginx web server.

Installation method is offline. You can download the latest PHP version from the below link.

PHP 8 for Windows can be downloaded from: https://windows.php.net/download/

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Runtime is required by PHP 8.0.0 and can be downloaded from:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Nginx Http Server can be downloaded from https://nginx.org/en/download.html

Nginx Installation on Windows Tutorial: https://youtu.be/qzLYojQ4qmw

PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:

Union Types
Named Arguments
Match Expressions
Attributes
Constructor Property Promotion
Nullsafe Operator
Weak Maps
Just In Time Compilation
And much much more…