Nov 16, 2007
Elizabeth Smith wrote up a great explanation of FastCGI and the reasons it makes Windows a better host for PHP applications. In the opening, she writes: What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has...
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Nov 12, 2007
Today at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona , Bob Kelly announced the official release of the FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 . This means customers now have reliable, high-performance hosting for PHP and other CGI-based applications on production Windows servers...
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Nov 07, 2007
The IIS7 community is growing! There have been a number of really cool things going on in the community around IIS7. Here are some of my favorites: New Web Control Panels for IIS7! I was very excited to see two new control panels...
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Oct 24, 2007
Scott Hanselman produced an awesome screencast on configuring IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI . He also does some live performance testing of the Qdig application using CGI, FastCGI and the new kernel-mode caching in IIS7. From Scott's blog: You can watch the...
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Oct 09, 2007
Everybody knows that IIS FastCGI is a great way to run PHP applications on IIS. We've been making great strides at delivering a solid production experience for hosting PHP on IIS, for both IIS7 on Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 and IIS6 / IIS5.1 on...
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Sep 24, 2007
Just over ten months ago I announced a technical collaboration agreement between Microsoft, Zend and the PHP community to enable fast and reliable hosting of PHP on Windows and IIS. Since then, more than 14,000 people have downloaded the Technical...
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Sep 24, 2007
At last, the IIS FastCGI Go-Live release is here! This release enables you to begin hosting PHP applications in production on your existing IIS 6.0 servers immediately, and brings multiple fixes and performance improvements over the previously released...
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Aug 13, 2007
This weekend, I was working on an MSDN magazine article and happened to install the Wordpress PHP blog app on IIS7. Of course, I used the latest FastCGI bits available in the box in in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, and the latest Windows-optimized PHP 5...
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