Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Internet and Unified Communications technology by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Found another nice videocast on TechNet Edge by Ryan Dunn, where he shows how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on IIS 7.0 using FastCGI. The popular PHP-based blogging application, Wordpress, is used to demonstrate.
See the videocast here on TechNet Edge.
Found a nice videocast covering PHP on IIS 7.0. It’s a 6˝ min. videocast by Dave Northey, where he covers how to get PHP to work on IIS 7, improving its performance (lots) and extending it with .NET
See the video here on TechNet Edge.
What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has some great documentation on the subject, however I’ll put it in layman’s terms for those who aren’t Computer Science majors.
Read the article here
Dennis Chung has written a great post on how to get WordPress running on IIS 7.0 (Windows Server 2008) in Server Core mode.
Take Windows Server 2008 Server Core + PHP + IIS7 + MySQL + WordPress, mix them together, will they blend well and work out as a nice concoction?
Read his post here.
Microsoft has released the final (RTM) version of FastCGI for IIS 6.0.
FastCGI support on IIS6, which is a free download, opens up the Windows Server 2003 platform for hosting PHP and other FastCGI-compliant application frameworks with substantially improved performance and stability.
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release.
Read more about FastCGI and the release at IIS.net and download it here.
