PHP
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.
How WinCache make PHP run faster
Sep 19th
Why WinCache?
Use of PHP accelerators is very common to make PHP run faster. Most of the existing PHP accelerators which are in use today are designed keeping *nix architecture in mind and mostly doesn’t work well on Windows. For example, APC which is very commonly used on *nix doesn’t work on Windows.
FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3
Apr 20th
IIS team today released FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3 which has some very nice additions to existing FastCGI ISAPI functionality. Following additions have been made to FastCGI ISAPI 1.0.
Improvements to FastCGI in IIS 7.5
Jan 22nd
Following improvements have been made to FastCGI module in Win7 (and Win2K8 R2).
1. Monitor changes to a file
We have added ability to monitor changes to a file for each FastCGI process pool. Module will recycle FastCGI processes for the process pool if a change to the file is detected.