The official guide on setting up PHP as FastCGI on Windows http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFastCGIOnWindows makes use of batch files. After extensive research and some new information, I've managed to make a fairly simple guide on setting up PHP as a service on Windows, with full start/stop/restart/status support. The first thing that's needed is the WinSW binary from http://maven.jenkins-ci.org/by BrentNewland - Nginx Mailing List - English