Partying with PHP on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7Drew RobbinsTechnical EvangelistMicrosoft Corporation

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Configuring PHP on IIS7Making your application rock on IIS7Taking advantage of the Windows platform

Q&A at Open Space

FastCGIExtension to CGI allowing reuse of a process.

Advantages Easy to Configure Faster than CGI More stable than PHP on ISAPI Can run non- thread-safe versions of PHP

A History of PHP on IIS

CGIInvokes a process for each request.

Advantages Easy to Configure Stable Execution

Disadvantages Slow due to I/O Overhead of Process Creation

ISAPILoaded as extension in process.

Advantages Better Performance

Disadvantages Many PHP Applications are not Thread-Safe

FastCGI for IIS6

Same FastCGI functionality as in IIS7, available as a separate download for IIS6 from the Microsoft download center

http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1521Fully supported by Microsoft

Walk-throughs demonstrating how to run popular PHP applications on Windows Server

See http://www.iis.net/php

Close collaboration with Zend TechnologiesImprovements in PHP engine for IIS with contributions and collaboration back to PHP CommunityZend Core Available for Commercially Supported PHP

FastCGI in IIS6 and IIS7

FastCGI in IIS6 FastCGI in IIS7

Available today on Download Center

Available with Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1

Delivered as a separate download for Windows Server 2003.

Delivered as part of IIS7. Users must install the CGI feature in IIS to enable FastCGI.

FastCGI ISAPI extension Native IIS7 module

Resources, forums, and reference material available on IIS.NET

Product help documentation, as well as resources on IIS.NET.

Configured via fcgiext.ini Configured via the new XML-based configuration system in IIS7.

Fully supported by Microsoft

Supports PHP and other FastCGI frameworks

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Advantages of PHP on IIS7

Modular architecture for reduced attack

surface

XML-based configuration system

Remote management

capability

Advanced diagnostics

Integration with WMS and Media Pack

Ability to extend IIS7 using managed code

New Modular Architecture The integrated pipeline

ManagedNative

Forms

Anon Basic

UrlAuth

Cache

ISAPI

Logging

Tracing

Static

ASP

ASP.NET

FastCGI

Compress

Errors

- or -

Managed

Custom

web.config

New Configuration System Say goodbye to the metabase!

Configuration stored in XML files validated by a schema.

Schema describes configuration settings for IIS, ASP.NET and 3rd party applications.

Central configuration file for the server contains system wide configuration settings.

Distributed configuration files contain overrides and local site and application settings.

Schema

applicationHost.config

web.config

New IIS Manager

Easy navigation to server, sites

and applications

Tasks organized by areas and

features

Common actions related to

navigation context

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Leveraging the Platform

Rich functionality in IIS7Included modules such as MembershipAdd-on modules from http://IIS.net

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHPOther Windows Applications

Active DirectoryExchangeSharePointOffice

Add-On Modules

PublishingWebDAV - ReleasedFTP7 - ReleasedFrontpage Server Extensions - Released

Media PackBitRate Throttling – Go LivePlaylists - CTP

Other modules to come…

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP

Goal: Provide robust, scalable, and reliable SQL Server connectivity for PHP developers targeting the Windows platform

Enterprise “abilities” to PHP/SQL Server Devs.

ReliabilityScalabilityMaintainability

Base the PHP driver's API on existing data patterns

Feb '08 CTP contains API changes based on community feedbackFor more info, see the team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp

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The IIS 7.0 Pillars What’s cool about IIS

Security

Extensibility

Config

System Manageme

nt

Diagnostics

• Customized, Componentized Web Server• Reduced management of patches• URLScan built-in functionality

• Brand new Win32 API• Integrated support for iHttpModules (ASP.NET)

• Distributed, delegatable configuration• Rich extensibility• Integrated configuration for Web Platform

• Innovative, Brand-new IIS Manager• AppCmd.exe: Command line administration• Http & Https remote administration

• Brand-new state API• Easy-to-setup & use failed request tracing• IIS & ASP.NET integrated diagnostics

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© 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.