October 2006 Archive on MVolo's Blog

The PHP / FastCGI Technical Preview is Live!

After several weeks of silence on this topic, and lots of hard work, we just released the FastCGI Techical Preview for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / IIS7! Read more on my blog here: http://mvolo.com/2006/10/31/the-php--fastcgi-technical-preview-is-live.aspx .

Extending your IIS 7 server with .NET

I feel like I got off on the wrong foot in my blog coverage of IIS extensibility … I started spending a lot of time talking about building IIS7 server modules with the native API, but did not mention anything about the new .NET extensibility. First...

Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors

In the previous post, I covered the “server not found” error that is a common and frustrating problem that may occur for a number of reasons after a configuration change, or when deploying a new server machine. Another common “what the...

Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting guide for those pesky "server not found" and "service unavailable" errors

Sometimes, after provisioning a new machine, or making some configuration changes, you may find that your IIS server has gone completely missing without so much as leaving you a note. As you desperately try to bring up your site, your browser connection...

IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI (Reason #9): Intuitive object model

This is the second post in the series on why IIS7 module development beats the pants off the ISAPI development for the previous version of IIS. Today's topic - the rich class-based IIS7 object model. Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/10/12/iis7-modules...

IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI (Reason #10): C++ Class-based encapsulation model

The first post in the IIS6 ISAPI vs IIS7 module development series. This one is about the basics, and why they make such a big difference. Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/10/07/why-iis7-module-is-better-then-iis6-isapi---reason-10-c-classbased...

10 reasons why server development is better with IIS7

As you already know (if you don’t, go read about it right now ), IIS7 core server has been completely re-engineered to provide a brand new extensibility model on top of which all of the server features are built. This allows anyone to remove/replace...

Making PHP rock on Windows/IIS

Right as I was about to go home, one of our developers comes in to tell me some good news about our new IIS7 FastCGI module. So, I figure I would shed some light on our recent work to improve hosting PHP (yes, you read right, PHP) applications on Windows...

My first blog post

I finally created a blog. Its about IIS7, ASP.NET, development, security, and other web server infrastructure topics that I work on here at the IIS team. You can check it out at www.mvolo.com - I will also cross post here for a while at least.

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