Ruslan's Blog Posts

PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta release

Today I am releasing PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta, which is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to: Register PHP with IIS; Run multiple PHP versions side by side; Check PHP runtime configuration...

Web Farm Framework 2.0 overview

IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can...

Install PHP applications with WebMatrix

Microsoft has recently launched a beta release of a new project called WebMatrix . This is a complete web development stack that can be used to start developing and deploying web sites. One thing that may be not so obvious from all the existing announcements...

WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP – Release to Web

Today IIS team has published the final release of WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP . This is the latest stable and production ready version of the extension. The v1.1 has all the features available in version 1.0 plus the following features. User Cache...

Storing URL rewrite mappings in a separate file

When using rewrite maps in IIS URL Rewrite it is very common to have a very large number of entries in a rewrite map. In order to avoid cluttering the configuration file - web.config - with this configuration data the rewrite maps can be defined in a...

WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP – Beta 2

Today IIS team has published a second beta of WinCache 1.1 , which has the following new features and improvements : File Change Notifications – the entries in the opcode and file caches are now updated as soon as the corresponding PHP files are...

Visual Studio XML IntelliSense for URL Rewrite 2.0

Last year I published an XML schema for URL Rewrite 1.1 that could be used to enable IntelliSense support when editing rewrite rules in Visual Studio XML editor. Now that the URL Rewrite 2.0 has been released, the old schema will not work for the the...

Slides and Questions from PHP on Windows Webcast

On April 9, Mark Brown and I did a PHP|Architect webcast “PHP Performance On Windows”. The slides from the presentation have been published at the following link: PHP Performance on Windows – slides There were a number of question at the end of the webcast...

Time-dependent URL rewriting

This post explains how to configure time-dependent URL rewriting rules by using IIS URL Rewrite 2.0. Time-dependent URL rewriting may be useful when you want to rewrite or redirect HTTP requests based on the time of day or when you need to take the entire...

PHP on IIS: MonitorChangesTo setting in FastCGI

PHP on Windows loads its configuration file php.ini during the startup of the process php-cgi.exe . When PHP is run on IIS via FastCGI the php-cgi.exe processes are re-used to handle many requests. If configuration settings in php.ini file get updated...

IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 – Release to Web

The IIS URL Rewrite Module 2.0 – RTW is available for download . IIS URL Rewrite v2.0 is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1 , and adds extensibility support and outbound response rewriting. More specifically, v2.0 can...

Important update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module

FastCGI module in IIS 7.0 has been lacking some of the features and bug fixes that are available in IIS 7.5 FastCGI module and in FastCGI Extension 1.5 on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0. The reason why this happened are explained in the post about FastCGI Module...

Make WordPress faster on IIS with WinCache 1.1

This post explains how to improve performance of WordPress on Windows by using the WinCache Extension 1.1 – Beta for PHP. You probably already know that just by enabling the WinCache extension and without any code changes it is possible to get a significant...

More Performance Improvements in WinCache 1.1-Beta

Since the WinCache Extension for PHP has been released last year it has been widely deployed by customers who run PHP on Windows OS and it has proven to provide a substantial performance boost for PHP applications hosted on Windows-based web servers....

WinCache Extension 1.0.1 – Servicing Release

The new release of WinCache Extension for PHP - version 1.0.1 – is available for download . This is a servicing release that has fixes for bugs reported in v1.0. In particular the following fixes and changes have been made in this release: Fixed...

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