Nov 10, 2009
PHP.NET web site is known for its well written and very detailed documentation. The excellent content together with tons of user contributed notes has made the PHP.NET the primary place for getting the help on all PHP related questions. However there...
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Sep 02, 2009
The FastCGI module in IIS has a configuration setting maxInstances , which controls the number of concurrently running php-cgi.exe processes that IIS creates to process PHP requests. To achieve optimal performance, it is recommended to fine tune this...
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Sep 01, 2009
Today IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Any PHP application...
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Jul 11, 2009
About a year ago I wrote an article about how to enable per-site PHP configuration on IIS with FastCGI . The instructions in that article required some non-trivial manipulations of IIS and FastCGI configuration settings. At that time it was one of the...
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Mar 18, 2009
While the task of setting up PHP on IIS was not a difficult one, it anyway required a lot of manual installation and configuration steps . With the PHP 5.2.9-1 release the PHP development community has put a lot of improvements to the PHP installer to...
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Feb 13, 2009
I am pleased to let everyone know that PHP development community has made significant improvements to the installer in upcoming PHP releases. In particular a number of bugs have been fixed to make the installer work well with FastCGI extension in IIS...
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Oct 31, 2008
Since the time we have published the article about installing FastCGI and PHP on IIS 7.0 it has become one of the most popular articles on http://learn.iis.net . Also it has received a lot of comments from site visitors. Today, we are publishing the updated...
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Aug 27, 2008
IIS team has recently released an update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module that fixes compatibility problems with several popular PHP applications. In particular, the update changes the behavior of FastCGI module in the following ways: REQUEST_URI server variable...
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