Another cool tool for IIS 7. The PHP Manager has been released by Ruslan from the IIS team. It’s available for download at codeplex. PHP Manager is a tool for IIS 7 that greatly simplifies installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of PHP in IIS.
PHP Manger for IIS 7
Ruslan from the IIS team, has released a new module for IIS 7, the PHP Manager for IIS 7, currently in beta. It is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to: Register PHP with IIS; Run multiple …
WordPress 2.6 Permalink issue
Upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6 yesterday and encountered an issue with permalinks not working anymore. Apparently this is a wellknown issue, especially when you host your WordPress blog on Windows and use permalinks with the index.php in the link, then the permalinks may fail. I found a few solutions …
Installing PHP on IIS 7.0
Found another nice videocast on TechNet Edge by Ryan Dunn, where he shows how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on IIS 7.0 using FastCGI. The popular PHP-based blogging application, WordPress, is used to demonstrate. See the videocast here on TechNet Edge.
FastCGI and PHP
Elizabeth Smith has written an article with a great explanation of FastCGI and the reasons why it makes Windows a better host for PHP applications. What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has some great documentation on the subject, however Ill put …