Drew's IIS Blog : PHP

Elizabeth Smith on FastCGI

drobbins — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:58:35 GMT

Elizabeth Smith wrote up a great explanation of FastCGI and the reasons it makes Windows a better host for PHP applications. In the opening, she writes:

What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has some great documentation on the subject, however I’ll put it in layman’s terms for those who aren’t Computer Science majors.

Read the article here.

Official Release of FastCGI Extension for IIS6

drobbins — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:17:32 GMT

Today at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Bob Kelly announced the official release of the FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0. This means customers now have reliable, high-performance hosting for PHP and other CGI-based applications on production Windows servers with full support from Microsoft.

The FastCGI extension allows IIS to reuse CGI processes for multiple requests which greatly improves the performance of PHP applications on Windows. This is exciting as many people at Microsoft have been working hard to make sure popular PHP applications work great on Windows.

Another great part of this news is that Zend has validated their Zend Core offering, a certified and supported version of PHP, on this release of FastCGI.

There are lots of resources on IIS.net to help get you started with FastCGI.

And don't forget to look forward to the great support for PHP on IIS 7.0.

Great Screencast on IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI

drobbins — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:03:00 GMT

Scott Hanselman produced an awesome screencast on configuring IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI. He also does some live performance testing of the Qdig application using CGI, FastCGI and the new kernel-mode caching in IIS7.

From Scott's blog:

You can watch the video/screencast on the new Hanselman Silverlight Player (thanks Tim!) or download the WMV directly. If you guys want more IIS7 videos in detail, give me feedback in the comments and I'll see what we can do about putting together a series over on http://www.iis.net.

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Screencast HowTo: IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI

If you are interested in configuring PHP and FastCGI on IIS7, there's a walkthrough in IIS.net: Using FastCGI to host PHP applications on IIS7