May 16, 2009
I am pleased to let everyone know that WordPress development community has added a built-in support for IIS 7 URL Rewrite Module in the upcoming WordPress 2.8 release. Starting with version 2.8 the Permalink Settings page will allow you to easily configure...
Tags: PHPWordpressURLRewrite
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGIWebPI
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGI
Feb 06, 2009
Recently I was told about Smashing Magazine , which turned out to be a pretty useful site. It is targeted for web developers and web designers and it contains tons of information, tools and freebies for web developers. One of the article on that site...
Tags: PHPWordpress
Jan 08, 2009
At some point I wanted to integrate a Silverlight based player into my blog, so I was looking for a WordPress plugin that would do that. However, I could not find any that was easy enough to use. So I decided to write one myself for self-educational purposes...
Tags: PHPWordpressSilverlight
Dec 24, 2008
The performance of WordPress may be sufficient for an average blog that gets a few page hits per minute. However, if your blog post suddenly shows up on digg.com or any other social networking site, it may become challenging for server to handle such...
Tags: PHPWordpress
Dec 05, 2008
Recently, I found out that my WordPress powered blog did not correctly handle 404 - File Not Found errors. When a request was made to a non-existent page, then instead of getting nice WordPress based error page, visitors used to get a generic IIS 7.0...
Tags: PHPWordpress
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...
Tags: PHPFastCGI