IIS Aid Articles: FastCGI

WinCache Opcode Cache for IIS

Dominic Ryan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:04:26 -0400

I've been doing some testing with Microsoft over the last month or two which I've simply been itching to talk about, but haven't been able to until now due to NDA. At the start of September the IIS team released a new PHP extension called WinCache for use with PHP/FastCGI on IIS which fills that large whole in PHP performance on IIS where an opcode cache should be. I've done some testing on my beta site, and the results have been very encouraging.

Microsoft FastCGI Beta 1.5 for IIS 5.1 and 6 released

Dominic Ryan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:10:09 -0400

Microsoft have released a new beta version of their popular FastCGI extension for IIS 5.1 & 6. This new 1.5 version includes the following new features over the current 1.0 release.

Improvements for FastCGI in Win7 and Windows 2K8 R2

Dominic Ryan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:44:35 -0500

Microsoft have announced several new improvements to their popular FastCGI module that will be included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These improvements include...

REQUEST_URI fix for FastCGI on IIS 7

Dominic Ryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:21:49 -0400

The IIS team have just released an update for FastCGI on IIS 7 that changes the behaviour of the REQUEST_URI server variable to ensure compatibility with popular PHP applications. These changes are;