From its first version, Internet Information Services (IIS) has supported Common Gateway Interface (CGI), which is a standards-based protocol that allows information servers, such as IIS, to interf...

Microsoft IIS 7.0 for Windows Vista SP1 now includes a built-in FastCGI component. To get detailed information on how to use FastCGI component to host PHP applications on Windows Server 2008 or Win...

SQL Server is a database built and supported by Microsoft. Many PHP applications support SQL Server as their back end data repository. These instructions assume that you already have SQL Server ins...

FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) that improves performance. The FastCGI extension is installable onto Server Core and enables applicatio...

While Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2008 is the recommended database to use when hosting PHP applications on an Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7) and above Web server, you can also use MySQL as th...

Overview This article provides a basic step by step guide on how to install and configure MySQL on the Windows Operating System. For more detailed instructions about installing and configuring MySQ...

Introduction The Microsoft® SQL Server® Driver for PHP is designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows® platform. The driver is a P...

Introduction Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7) and above comes with extended support for application frameworks through FastCGI, an open protocol supported by many open-source application fra...

PHP is a widely used, easy-to-learn, open-source scripting language. Microsoft ® SQL Server ® is a powerful and robust relational model database server that can handle terabytes of data. Together, ...

Introduction The fastest and easiest way to install PHP on Internet Information Services (IIS) is by using the Microsoft ® Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI completely automates setting up II...

Introduction Microsoft embraces hosting PHP applications on the Windows ® operating system, both by building enabling technologies and by working with the PHP community to ensure that popular PHP a...

From the Downloads page select the installation package that is appropriate for your target machine. Download and run the installer, which will install and register PHP Manager's binaries with IIS....

Introduction The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to significantly increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows® operating system. Any PHP applicat...

A common requirement when running PHP applications in shared hosting environment is per-site configuration, because each PHP application may require a different set of PHP settings. Shared hosting ...

Introduction PHP hosters generally set up an environment, and provide a separate domain for each customer to host their applications. Self-hosters or very small hosters, however, may need create a ...

To send e-mail from a PHP application using the System.Net.Mail API, you must configure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) e-mail. Configuring e-mail services tells the System.Net.Mail applicatio...

There are various steps you can take to optimize Windows Server ® 2008 R2 or Windows Server ® 2008, Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7) and above, and FastCGI performance for your Web workloads...

The ability to run multiple versions of PHP on one Internet Information Services (IIS) server can provide advantages when using the Microsoft ® Web Platform. Some PHP applications rely on functions...

PHP errors often do not provide sufficient detail to help diagnose errors that occur within the framework. These include basic errors such as 404 Not Found. Because of this, the default “detailed e...

The following articles provide guidance in managing and administering the Microsoft® Web Platform. Create a Web Site . This article provides guidance for creating Web sites. Select a Provisioning O...

If you use Microsoft ® SQL Server ® as your database, you must create and implement an effective security plan. There is a wealth of information about how to secure a SQL Server database; this arti...

The access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions associated with an object. Each of these permission entries is called an access control entry (ACE); an ACE contains permissions associated wi...

PHP code can be embedded in your Web pages along with HTML code. When your Web server receives a request for a page, the page is first given to the PHP handler. The PHP handler outputs HTML code wi...

Security is always a consideration; it is critical to make careful security considerations when you implement and maintain your Web sites, infrastructure, and PHP applications. Internet Information...

Security is always a consideration; it is critical to make careful security considerations when you implement and maintain your Web sites, infrastructure, and applications. Internet Information Ser...

You can expose key access control information to a PHP application to facilitate application-level access control, if desired. The Microsoft ® .NET extensibility in Internet Information Services 7 ...