Nobody would like visitors to see an HTTP error code when visiting their website; however, it happens. HTTP error codes exist to tell the visitor that there was an issue accessing the requested page. HTTP error codes are the 400- and 500-series codes; 400-series codes identify client request errors and 500-series codes identify server-side errors.

Following my previous series of posts on how to install IIS7, PHP and MySQL on Windows Server 2008, Bill Staples from IIS.Net left a comment on my blog suggesting that I checkout FastCGI.
According to IIS.net…
…the FastCGI component enables popular application frameworks like PHP be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable [...]

Now that we have installed PHP 5 on IIS 7 successfully, we’re going to install MySQL Server 5.1.

First of all, get yourself a copy of the MySQL Server 5.1 ZIP Setup from http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.22-rc-win32.zip/from/pick#mirrors
Extract all the files from the archive and launch Setup.exe
I’ve chosen to use the Typical Setup but feel free to customize the installation [...]

Following up on my last post, I’ve now got a working IIS 7 web server running on Windows 2008. We’re now going to install PHP5 and MySQL 5.1.
Installing PHP5 on IIS 7
First of all, grab yourself a copy of PHP over at http://www.php.net/downloads.php. I always use the zip package, I never use the installer. The [...]

I’ve just got myself an evaluation copy of Windows 2008 Server out of curiosity. I’ve installed it on VMware Workstation 6 running on a Windows Vista computer. While a virtualized Windows 2008 Server is a sucker on resource, it’s performance is still acceptable for those who just want to try it out like me.
Let’s see how to install PHP5 [...]