Comments on: How To Install IIS 7, PHP5 and MySQL 5.1 on Windows Server 2008 – Part 1 http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/install-iis7-php5-mysql5-win2008server.html Web Hosting Reviews & Coupons Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: George Gruber http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/install-iis7-php5-mysql5-win2008server.html/comment-page-1#comment-9929 George Gruber Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:59:52 +0000 http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/install-iis7-php5-mysql5-win2008server.html#comment-9929 I would like to point out that FastCGI, as profound as it may seem, has some limitations. I had inadvertently inserted a UNICODE character at the end of the first line of an included .php5 file. I knew what the problem was but the character was represented in such a way that it was very difficult to see. I had been configured and running PHP using FastCGI as outlined (and it did work) but it produced no HTML output whatsoever. It took me a couple of hours to find it. I reconfigured IIS to use the ISAPI interface with the same error and not only did it throw an error message but it also rendered the page (albeit with an error message). Had I been using ISAPI all along, I would have seen the error, had the line number identified and fixed in about 30 seconds. As it was, I only had a blank browser window to work from. If you have ever had a working web site all of a sudden reduced to absolutely no output, you would understand that your heart just stops and you think WTF? IMHO, if you are using PHP and MySQL, the thread safe issue isn't an issue. Perhaps a good compromise is use FastCGI on production and ISAPI on development servers. It doesn't mean that there aren't bugs that would crop up on the production server but 99% will be dealt with in an environment that is kinder to the programmer. I would like to point out that FastCGI, as profound as it may seem, has some limitations. I had inadvertently inserted a UNICODE character at the end of the first line of an included .php5 file. I knew what the problem was but the character was represented in such a way that it was very difficult to see. I had been configured and running PHP using FastCGI as outlined (and it did work) but it produced no HTML output whatsoever. It took me a couple of hours to find it. I reconfigured IIS to use the ISAPI interface with the same error and not only did it throw an error message but it also rendered the page (albeit with an error message). Had I been using ISAPI all along, I would have seen the error, had the line number identified and fixed in about 30 seconds. As it was, I only had a blank browser window to work from. If you have ever had a working web site all of a sudden reduced to absolutely no output, you would understand that your heart just stops and you think WTF?

IMHO, if you are using PHP and MySQL, the thread safe issue isn’t an issue. Perhaps a good compromise is use FastCGI on production and ISAPI on development servers. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t bugs that would crop up on the production server but 99% will be dealt with in an environment that is kinder to the programmer.

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