Aug 30, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGI
Jul 30, 2010
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...
Tags: OtherWeb Farm
Jul 09, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPWordpressWebMatrix
Jun 30, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPIIS News ItemWinCache
May 19, 2010
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...
Tags: URLRewrite
Apr 29, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPIIS News ItemWinCache
Apr 23, 2010
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...
Tags: URLRewrite
Apr 13, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGIWinCache
Apr 05, 2010
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...
Tags: URLRewrite
Mar 30, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGI
Mar 11, 2010
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...
Tags: IIS News ItemURLRewrite
Mar 10, 2010
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...
Tags: FastCGIIIS News Item
Mar 05, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPWordpressWinCache
Mar 04, 2010
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....
Tags: PHPIIS News ItemWinCache
Jan 26, 2010
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...
Tags: PHPIIS News Item