Request_URI for IIS, NeoSmart Technologies’ compatibility toolkit for IIS on Windows, has been updated to version 1.1, with support for Helicon’s ISAPI_Rewrite 3.x
With this update the installation process has been simplified somewhat, in particular the need modify HTTPD.INI to set the server variables has been eliminated – you just need to install ISAPI_Rewrite 3, configure [...]
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Request_URI For IIS Updated with ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Support
Published by August 19th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software, Windows 0 CommentsMicrosoft FastCGI Updated – But Should You Upgrade?
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software, Windows 2 CommentsWe previously covered the final release of the IIS FastCGI module, jointly developed between Microsoft and Zend… But just this week, Microsoft [[MSFT]] announced the availability of the RTM of the IIS FastCGI module.
So what’s going on? We’ve downloaded the current release (which, by the way, is not compatible with the old one, you must uninstall [...]
Server Move Completed – NeoSmart Technologies Fully Optimized!
Published by October 19th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 3 CommentsWe’ve been working on moving to a new server all week, and we’ve just finished the transition. Best of all, we’ve switched to the new servers without any downtime in-between. Our new server is a 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo and with 3GB of DDR2 RAM – all thanks to the awesome guys and gals [...]
FastCGI for IIS Final Released, Congratulations to the IIS Team!
Published by October 10th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software 10 CommentsCongratulations are in order for Microsoft’s IIS development team – today they’ve just announced the public availability of the final version of the IIS-FastCGI ISAPI Extension – a long-awaited and much-improved way of running just about any open-source scripting engine on IIS, safely and quickly.
The Microsoft [[MSFT]] FastCGI module for IIS 5.1, 6, and 7 [...]
eAccelerator PHP Extension Isn’t Thread-Safe…
Published by September 10th, 2007 in Programming, Software, Windows 6 CommentsFor all the Windows-bound PHP users out there, consider yourselves warned: even if you’re running the (supposedly) thread-safe PHP Win32 binary redistribution, you’re still susceptible to PHP Access Violation Errors, race problems, heap corruption, and much worse if you use the popular eAccelerator opcode-caching extension.
We did our testing with the binaries compiled by SiteBuddy using the [...]
Redirecting External Links to Old Downloads
Published by July 6th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 1 CommentWe’re trying something new with our rewrite rules, and will be redirecting links from non-NeoSmart sites for older versions of our programs to the download page for the latest program.
For instance, if a Slashdot post is pointing to EasyBCD 1.5 setup file directly, it will be redirected to the EasyBCD download page where the user will have [...]
How To: Open Source + Windows + IIS… with Stability
Published by April 11th, 2007 in Guides, Microsoft, Reviews, Software, Windows 19 CommentsAs we mentioned back in March, we switched NeoSmart Technologies over from PHP’s ISAPI extension for Windows/IIS to Microsoft’s “FastCGI for IIS” implementation instead in hopes of achieving better reliability and uptime during times of heavy load.
Whether you like Windows or not, at some point or the other, you may find yourself using IIS 6 [...]
No More Downtime!
Published by March 12th, 2007 in Guides, Microsoft, NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Reviews, Software, Windows 5 CommentsIt seems that every time we get on Slashdot (or Digg for that matter), we go down. It doesn’t make a difference just how well prepared we are, what kind of hosting we’re using, what the application being Slashdotted is, etc. It’s the unwritten law at NST. But we hope this’s the last time we [...]
PHP really sucks. Unbelievably so. On LAMP, it’s awesome. But if you’re on a new, shiny WIMP server, PHP is the pits. PHP stability on IIS is about 1 over a million that on a LAMP server. So we’re sorry. We’re sorry we had a 20 hour outage and couldn’t do anything about because we [...]
How To: apache_response_headers() on IIS
Published by November 18th, 2006 in Linux, Programming, Windows 5 CommentsAlong with the release of our request_uri for IIS yesterday, we have another useful tip for a second function commonly found in WordPress plugins and other PHP redistributable scripts. apache_response_headers is used to get a list of all the headers sent out by a page, in the format of an associative array.
IIS doesn’t use this [...]
