Mike Volodarsky wrote a fantastic article in the January 2008 issue of MSDN magazine in which he explains how you can take an existing PHP application (he uses QDig , a popular image gallery) and improve it without touching a line of its code. This is a great demonstration of the power of IIS 7 's modular...

Here's a fun one for all you LAMP fans out there. I have inherited a PHP/PostgreSQL based website from another company. Scenario: UBuntu Linux 7.02 PHP 5 PostgreSQL 8.2 Apache 2.2 Beautiful setup, works great. Problem. I need PHP 4.4 for this project . I figured, no problem, just revert to PHP 4.4. No...

Microsoft has just announced the Go Live release of its FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 (FastCGI Extension). This FastCGI Extension release is supported on IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 for a fully scalable production environment and IIS 5.1 on Windows XP in order to support developers who build their...

Not particularly new news now, but if you haven't started investigating PHP on Windows yet, here's your chance. Not only did IIS collaborate with Zend, they also made a download available for IIS 7 and IIS 6. From the news article on iis.net, looks like the effort is just starting - "This...

Right as I was about to go home, one of our developers comes in to tell me some good news about our new IIS7 FastCGI module. So, I figure I would shed some light on our recent work to improve hosting PHP (yes, you read right, PHP) applications on Windows/IIS. Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/09...

You read that right. All MIX09 attendees will receive a fully functional copy (the real deal) of Windows Web Server 2008 at no cost. That’s nearly a $500 value! Windows Web Server 2008 is a robust and reliable foundation on which to develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications...

They say that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas , but there’s no way we can keep to ourselves what was announced this morning here at MIX09 . At our annual conference for Web developers and designers, Corporate VP Scott Guthrie , who runs our .NET Developer Platform group, unveiled a host of new...

Though I do allot of PHP development work, I still think ASP.NET is the best option for new web development. Still, it “feels” a bit weird that Microsoft is contributing to these PHP efforts. Did you know that Microsoft is contributing to the PHP Engine ? http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/05...

When deploying PHP web applications that handle their errors with their own error pages, the existingResponse for Custom Error Pages feature of IIS should be set to “ PassThrough ” for that particular site. This greatly improves the customer experience when accessing your new application, particularly...

Download the New Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta Perhaps you are a Web Developer or a Web Hoster who on the one hand likes PHP. But on the other hand you like Windows. It’s OK. It’s not a contradiction. Now you can run your PHP applications even better on Windows. It’s also OK to tell your Linux...