Mick Genie's Blog

I have not blog for a month . It was a very busy month for January(lazy for me, actually).

Today, got to share something with our friend again which known as IIS 7.0.Administration Pack and I will highlight the FastCGI Setting for IIS 7.0.

Normally, when you install PHP FastCGI with IIS 7.0, you will not have the UI(User Interface) setting from your IIS 7.0, but you may install IIS 7.0 Administration Pack to allow you IIS to show the setting from IIS.

Refer to the URL as below and choose the Administration pack which suite to your system.
http://www.iis.net/expand/AdministrationPack

Install it, and you are done.

Look to your IIS and select on the machine name, you shall get the FastCGI setting overthere.

Did you know Microsoft and PHP have came out faster PHP with IIS named wincache(Windows Cache Extension) last week?

This means that you will no longer see PHP process keep used up your memory if you are using IIS Web Services anymore.

How to get wincache? It is very easy, make sure that you have PHP5.2 or PHP5.3 installed with your machine. Even you may install Microsoft Web Platform Installer from your Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 machine to install it.

For more information, you may refer to the URL below for more detail.

WinCache Extension 1.0 for PHP – Release to Web

You might ask what is the advantage with WinCache extension? IIS (Internet Information System) have listed Wincache could increase the PHP performance on Windows by caching bytecode in memory, reduce file system I/O used in memory, etc.