IIS and FastCGI
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| Description | A tutorial, reference guide, and detailed explanation of all things IIS/FastCGI integration. |
Internet Information Services (herein IIS) is Microsoft's web-server applications, it runs only on Microsoft Windows. FastCGI permits properly designed scripts to execute without the the overhead of starting up the interpreter on each HTTP request. This wikibook functions to teach the user how to configure IIS with FastCGI.
IIS does some non-http serving stuff as well, it bundles in FTP, and SMTP server applications and it largely relies on Windows or WINS servers for authentication . As an alternative to IIS-as-a-webserver on Windows, one can migrate away from IIS, and install Apache 2.x; or, the newer Lighttpd 1.4x or greater. Both, of the above web-servers also run on *nix and are freely available under more liberal licenses.
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- Steps to getting it operational
- Obtaining FastCGI
- Registering interpreter
- Language Specific Guides
- Obtaining FastCGI
- Appendex
