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Windows Server

Sep
13
2008

Cacti – Open Source Network Monitoring

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for [...]

Jul
30
2008

IIS Best Practices for Configuring FastCGI and PHP

 
Best Practices for Configuring FastCGI and PHP
Security Isolation for PHP Web Sites
The recommendation for isolating PHP web sites in a shared hosting environment is consistent with all general security isolation recommendations for IIS 7.0. In particular, it is recommended to:

Use one application pool per web site
Use user account as an identity for application pool [...]

Jul
30
2008

IUsing FastCGI to Host PHP Applications on IIS 7.0

 
The FastCGI support in IIS enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of [...]

Jul
30
2008

Configuring IIS 7.0 for Shared Hosting

 
The following articles contain the recommended IIS 7.0 settings to help ensure security and performance in a shared hosting environment.
See also PowerShell Script to configure each of these settings.
In This Section
32-bit Mode Worker Processes
One of the performance benefits of the x64 platform is that it increases virtual address space, making more memory available. We [...]

May
6
2008

Dennis Chung – Windows MVP: Server Core + IIS7 + PHP + MySQL

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Wow. Take Windows
Server 2008 Server Core + PHP + IIS7 + MySQL + WordPress, mix them together, will
they blend well and work out as a nice concoction? Matty challenged
me to this blend, and guess what, we have a powerful cocktail to offer after all!
I scuffled around to see if anyone had come up with this [...]

Jul
24
2006

Jim DeVries’ Infrastructure and Technology Blog : Kerberos / Delegation Worksheet

Finally
getting back to this topic… I created a worksheet for one of my customers that detailed
the configuration of Kerberos & delegation. There are really two tracks that need
to be followed: 1) Confirm that authentication works on the client, front-end server,
and back-end servers, and 2) Confirm that Active Directory, trust relationships and
DNS are all configured correctly.
This [...]