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10.10.07
Go Live PHP & IIS
 By Dan Morrill
PHP just got a major boost from Microsoft this morning with the release of FastCGI for windows.
Anyone working with PHP and Windows knows just how painful it can be, if you can get it to work reliably at all.
We have been working with a number of projects that all involved PHP on IIS, and seen web sites entirely wiped out due to bad upgrades, where even the backups of the backups would not work due to one technical issue after another until having to revert to the previous version of PHP on IIS.
Today Microsoft is eager to announce availability of the Go Live release of Microsoft FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 (FastCGI Extension) as a free download. The Go Live release is the last step in the Microsoft beta process and represents the highest level of quality and reliability. For the first time, customers have a license that permits them to deploy the FastCGI Extension on their production Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS 6) Web servers. Source: IIS.net
Hopefully this will ease a lot of pain, and well worth checking out to see if this makes PHP running on IIS (which we know of many such installations) will help web masters and programmers not have to deal with the pain of getting PHP to work on IIS. The good part is that the new program is in both 32 and 64-bit versions.
You can download the program here.
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When we wrapped this up on an XP developer's laptop this morning, we did notice a speed increase; we also noticed fewer errors when programming a MySQL connect structure via PHP. There is nothing better than seeing your developer grin and nod his head.
This is also an important part is Microsoft supporting Open Source. PHP used to only work reliably on Linux, and given the investment in technology, people, and training, switching a technology can be very expensive. Moving from PHP to dot net can be difficult, and will get a lot of resistance in a company. The program is well worth checking out if the company has stabilized on Windows and PHP. It might just make a lot of folks days.
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About the Author:
Dan Morrill has been in the information security field for 18 years, both
civilian and military, and is currently working on his Doctor of Management.
Dan shares his insights on the important security issues of today through
his blog, Managing
Intellectual Property & IT Security, and is an active participant in the
ITtoolbox blogging community.
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