Consider the following scenario. You have an Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 web server running on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. The Microsoft update KB973917 gets installed on the server. After installing KB973917, the IIS 6.0 application pools cannot start up successfully. An inspection of the event logs show that the IIS worker processes [...]
Jan
5
2010
5
2010
Internet Information Services 6.0 may not function correctly after installing KB973917
Sep
13
2008
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
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
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
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 [...]
Jul
28
2008
28
2008
Migrating to Wordpress
With all of the new support for php in Windows Server 2008, I had to try Wordpress as my blog engine. I’ve used dasBlog for years now and I have been mostly happy with it, but the lack of themes for it has always bothered me. If I’m inspired by seeing my page, then I’m [...]