During IIS7 development, I’ve written quite a few modules for IIS7 / ASP.NET. Some of these were for various demos, others were to help out various internal and external customers, and others just because they were fun to write. Developing for IIS7 has been lots of fun for me because you can finally do a … [Read more…]
*************************UPDATE: NOV 12, 2007: FastCGI RTM for IIS 6.0 / Windows Server 2003 is released on download center.************************* Everybody knows that IIS FastCGI is a great way to run PHP applications on IIS. So, if you are looking to give FastCGI a try, where should you start? The good news is that we’ve been making … [Read more…]
IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. The simplest way of course is to use the new GUI Administration tool, where your new website is always a few mouse-clicks away. But, what if you need to create 10, 100, or even 10,000 websites? Unless you own a farm of … [Read more…]
At last, the IIS FastCGI Go-Live release is here! This release enables you to begin hosting PHP applications in production on your existing IIS 6.0 servers immediately, and brings multiple fixes and performance improvements over the previously released Technical Preview 2. Download it here: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1521. There are also several new articles available about installing FastCGI … [Read more…]
After several weeks of move-related outages, mvolo.com is back online at its new home at MaximumASP. I am temporarily retiring the old server that sat in my friend’s garage for the past 8 months, until I decide to self-host it again in my new apartment. My friend is moving out of the house, so this … [Read more…]
You may have noticed mvolo.com being unavailable at certain points over the past two days. I am in the process of moving the server across the country, and that combined with certain other toubles with the internet setup is contributing to spotty availability. Next week the server will find its new permanent home so it … [Read more…]
I’ve haven’t had a chance to post much over the past few weeks – its pretty frustrating at times to look at the ever-increasing backlog of juicy IIS7 topics that I want to cover and no time to actually do them justice. I’ve been working on a few interesting things lately, that have been taking … [Read more…]