Contents tagged with IIS
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Can browse my site using http://127.0.0.1, http://<machine_IP_address> but cannot browse the same site using http://localhost
Yesterday our Product Manager faced a strange problem on his Windows 7 box. He created a site (which was a PHP application) but was not able to browse the site using http://localhost. He was getting HTTP status code 503 (Service not available). When I debugged his machine I found that following things hold true:
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Troubleshoot – My PHP script is timing out
I hear a lot about the problem where web server (IIS) throws an error saying that PHP script has timed out in our forums. Let’s try to understand the reason behind this. I will be using a Windows 7 Enterprise machine (having IIS 7.5) to explain this but this should be applicable to Windows 2008/Windows Vista too. The same can be told true for Windows 2003/Windows XP with some difference like IIS stores FastCGI configuration in fcgiext.ini file rather than application meta-base. However the concept should be exactly similar.
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WINCACHE 1.0.1 released for both PHP 5.2 as well as PHP 5.3
I recently asked user of WINCACHE to give feedback on soon-to-be-released bits of WINCACHE 1.0.1. We got mails from lot of people who came forward to help us with the testing. I would like to thank all of you there who helped us in testing the critical fix. I am still getting request for new binaries which is overwhelming. Based on the user’s feedback (which was all positive) we decided to release WINCACHE 1.0.1 today. I would advise everybody using WINCACHE to switch to the new stable version even if you are not seeing any problem with current builds. This version has got a critical fix and is good enough reason to upgrade to the newer bits.
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Working with Microsoft SQL Server driver (php_sqlsrv.dll) for PHP on Windows
I get a lot of forum posting in our IIS forum asking how to develop PHP application using Microsoft SQL Server. Today I am going to explain basics of developing PHP application on Microsoft SQL Server. Let me start by stating one thing, developing PHP application on Microsoft SQL Server is really easy. The extension which glues the two world namely PHP and Microsoft SQL Server is called ‘Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP’. Some important characteristics of this driver are:
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Call for testing a critical fix in WINCACHE RTW 1.0
There has been several instances where people using WINCACHE have reported problem while running it on the actual production server. They have complained that WINCACHE works very well on development server but the users can see a crash (or different symptoms of it) while actually deploying it on a live production server. I am pasting some of the forum links where these kind of problems have been reported:
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Installing popular PHP applications like Wordpress, Joomla, SugarCRM, Moodle, Gallery and more on IIS
Today I am going to talk about installing some of the top PHP applications on IIS. The installation steps for all these applications are almost similar and you need to just sit back and relax, click few buttons and installation is done. I will cover following applications today:
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Announcing the RTW release of Application Request Routing V2 for IIS7.0 on Vista/Windows 2008 and IIS7.5 on Windows7/Windows 2008 R2
Today we did the official release for ARR Version 2 for IIS7.0 on Vista/Windows 2008 and IIS7.5 on Windows7/Windows 2008 R2 and it is now fully supported by Microsoft Support.
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Installing PHP on Windows
There has been numerous post on the IIS forum where people have difficulty installing PHP on Windows. There are many reasons for this. However the main issue is that people try to do the installation manually and any manual step is prone to error. It is not a bad idea to do the installation manually but I would suggest to leave that to an advanced user who knows PHP well and has successfully configured it many times. For novice user or people who are just starting using PHP, I am going to talk about an easy way to install PHP on Windows and IIS. This article applies to user running IIS from Windows XP to Windows 7.