Don Raman's Blog Posts

Final RTW version of WINCACHE 1.0 released

I am extremely proud to announce that we have released the final RTW version of WINCACHE 1.0. Please look at the forum announcement of the same at http://forums.iis.net/p/1162808/1925444.aspx#1925444 which contains all the details about the release. I...

Troubleshooting PHP Installation on Windows

My PHP installation is not working? I am not able to run my PHP scripts? A simple PHPINFO page is not loading in my browser? These are typical questions I hear from users in the forum. I would still say the best way to install PHP is to use WPI as described...

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 . Overview: Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS7.0 on Vista...

Enabling WINCACHE on per site basis

With WINCACHE 1.0 RC one can configure parts of WINCACHE solution on a per site basis. As you know WINCACHE has two kinds of cache namely output code cache and file cache. With RC release, you have the ability to turn output code cache on a per site basis...

Running PHP displays the code itself

At times we get posting on the forum where user complain that when they are running a PHP file, the output is the file itself. This means that the script was not recognized as a PHP script and rather it was treated as plain text by the browser. There...

WINCACHE statistics page - login dialog keeps popping up

As you know we released WINCACHE 1.0 RC early last week. We have got some good response for all the new features and bug fixes the RC release contains. If you haven't tried the RC version you should definitely try it out. We also included a brand new...

WINCACHE 1.0 RC - Breaking Change

This breaking change has got an interesting story. While we were developing this WINCACHE module and I got the initial build to test I realized that the only way to test it using CGI version of PHP. Well I being a developer myself checked out the sources...

WINCACHE 1.0 RC - New cool features

I will be talking about some new features we have coded in WINCACHE RC release . We have introduced new API and changes/additions to the WINCACHE INI directives. I am going to explain two new improvements we have done over Beta release which will dictate...

WINCACHE 1.0 RC - Using the statistics page

We did the Release Candidate (RC) release of WINCACHE today. For details look here . It is exciting to see this out as this gives more flexibility in running the software in production environment. One of the enhancement we have done in this release is...

Configuring PHP Extension on Windows - A simple way

There has been too many problem reported in our forum about not able to configure one particular extension. The problems are many: Configuring a non-compatible version of the extension Missing some dependent DLL Trying to use thread safe version of the...

Simple Authentication Page in PHP

As part of WINCACHE statistics page, I came across the need for making the WINCACHE.php file having some kind of authentication. Yes we will have an official WINCACHE statistics page shipping with the Release Candidate due sometime this month. To know...

Upgrading to PHP 5.3 - an easy way

I already talked about how WPI can help you installing PHP on Windows running IIS. If you haven't read that post, I would encourage you to read that post before continue reading this. The link is here . So wondering why I am asking you to read the previous...

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...

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