IIS and FastCGI

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IIS and FastCGI

Reading Level	and up.
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Description	A tutorial, reference guide, and detailed explanation of all things IIS/FastCGI integration.
Main Editor	EvanCarroll (contact)
Main Authors	Evan Carroll
Related Books	Ruby on Rails
Info Links	http://www.iis.net/fastcgi
Book Category	IIS and FastCGI
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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.