IIS
Podcast on Running PHP on Windows
Jun 11th
Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-training Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. I met Peter in Chicago during Tek-X and we along with Don and Wade recorded a podcast on evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. We talked about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, [...]
Using IIS configuration tools to manage HWC configuration
May 30th
I have seen many people built some innovative solutions on top of hostable web core (HWC) functionality which was added in IIS7. One of the questions which HWC users frequently ask is how to make IIS configuration tools (like appcmd, UI etc.) work against configuration file which their HWC instance is using. So far they [...]
Goodness of dynamic maxInstances in FastCGI
May 4th
One of the major pain points in FastCGI 1.0 was that users were required to set maxInstances to a number which works best for their application. Many users didn’t tune this value and were running FastCGI with default value of maxInstances which didn’t give them optimal performance. We recommended users to set maxInstances to (10 [...]
How to add traces to IIS log from PHP
Apr 5th
One of the new features added to FastCGI module in IIS 7.5 is ability to use IIS tracing infrastructure from FastCGI applications. This feature request was made by a customer who wanted to consolidate logging of the request processing in one log. All IIS events were present in IIS trace logs but traces generated by [...]
Application specific mapping in FastCGI ISAPI 1.5
Feb 1st
IIS team recently released FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0. One of the major new features added in this release is per application process pools. Per application process pools allow users to specify a unique FastCGI mapping for a particular web application in fcgiext.ini. Using this functionality administrators can now choose to [...]
Urlscan to RequestFiltering migration using MSDeploy
Oct 30th
In addition to FastCGI migration provider, MSDeploy 1.0 RTW shipped with a URLScan to request filtering migration provider to ease migration of UrlScan.ini settings to system.webServer/security/requestFiltering section. Even though URLScan 3.1 is supported on Win2K8 and you are not required to move to request filtering module, there are few advantages in using request filtering module. One advantage is that all your configuration can stay together in applicationHost.config and web.config and you are not required to maintain a separate configuration file.
Migrating FastCGI configuration from IIS 5.1/6.0 to IIS 7.0/7.5
Sep 24th
Problem
As you know FastCGI functionality on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 is provided by FastCGI ISAPI extension which is available as an independent download. On IIS 7.0 and beyond, FastCGI functionality is provided by IIS FastCGI module which comes with the operating system.