Everything is Crap » windows server http://everythingiscrap.com Notes on the crap we've been subjected to Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Setup FastCGI on your web server to make PHP sing! http://everythingiscrap.com/setup-fastcgi-on-your-web-server-to-make-php-sing/ http://everythingiscrap.com/setup-fastcgi-on-your-web-server-to-make-php-sing/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:09:00 +0000 paul http://piotrouble.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/setup-fastcgi-on-your-web-server-to-make-php-sing
I was setting up the forums for the Pioneer, which are pretty much done, and I noticed that the forums were acting really sluggishly. It's a phpbb3 forum. I've used them before and they've seemed pretty snappy to me, so I figured our webserver, which recently got moved to a server with less resources (but more hard drive space), was just acting slowly. But I began to wonder if that was really the case. My own pages, written in ASP.net were preforming just fine. So I researched it and apparently there's something called FastCGI that doesn't come pre-installed on 2003, but it greatly increases the response of script interpreters like PHP.

So, I downloaded the FastCGI extension from Microsoft, installed it, then added this hander for PHP files on the website of interest:

C:WINDOWSsystem32inetsrvfcgiext.dll

After that I re-ran the PHP installer and told it to use FastCGI. It worked perfectly. Now my phpbb3 is performing much faster, even though the web server still isn't as powerful as it should be. It works; that's all that matters.

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