hi!
nice site and good articles.... I'm a newbie to learning PHP and need to learn it for an in-house project...
we use IIS6, win2003 and mssql... on both a development and production server.
silly questions but do I have to install PHP first or does the iis-aid installer included it?
If PHP was installed prior and removed will this affect the iis-aid install?
For a production environment with a light load application with only 10-20 users and small db, should I use the new fast-cgi?
Sorry for the newbie questions.. good job on the site..
thanks
mel
Hi Mel,
Not a silly question at all. Yes, the IIS Aid PHP Installer installs all the PHP files, sets required environment variables and configures IIS for you. However the installer does not currently check for any previously isntalled versions of PHP, so be sure to check out my article on uninstalling PHP from IIS.
As for ISAPI Vs FastCGI it really depends on your server specs, struture of your code, and of course what your users are actually doing. In general through I would recommend using the FastCGI handler as I'd say it really is the future of PHP on IIS. Unless you need it right now, there should be a new version of the IIS Aid PHP installer out in a few weeks that does all this for you
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