Did you fix your PHP 5.3 issue on Windows 2008 server on 64-bit?

This post is to help anyone who is having 500 Internal Server Errors with their install of PHP 5.3 on IIS 7 in the Windows 2008 Server environment. I just spent a few hours troubleshooting this and I hope I can help save more hours of the same for others. I looked this up and found a lot of false leads...

I am running Windows Server x64, IIS 7 and php NTS 5.2.8 fastCGI module. Main application is a wordpress blog with about 60,000 visits per day (about 200,000 page views). There are other web sites, but they are all samllish compared to this one. All of a sudden my memory usage went from about 2.2 GB...

Hi I just installed the WPI 2.0 RC on my Vista SP1 desktop to try it out, and tried to install a WordPress blog (FYI MySQL was already installed, the rest of the "package" wasn't). Also, if it matters, I did it whilst I had Visual Studio (2008 Pro) and SQL Server 2005 Management Studio...

I'm a noob on IIS. But I've been looking everywhere for a solution but nothing works. The following mentions 2 problems. I think I've already fixed the first one but the second one is the key issue. I have Server 2008 x64 Virtual Machine / IIS 7 / Wordpress 2.8 / MySQL NTS / PHP Everything...