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[PHP-WIN] Re: ISAPI/NSAPI FastCGI implementations available
by Shane Caraveo other posts by this author
Feb 4 2002 6:14PM messages near this date
[PHP-WIN] ISAPI/NSAPI FastCGI implementations available | [PHP-WIN] How to find out MAC address of remote user
Yes, you can get it at www.caraveo.com/fastcgi/phpfcgi.zip
This is built on 4.1.1 sources, and is only the phpfcgi.exe stub, you need
binaries for the rest of php available from php.net.

Shane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Pickett" <gpickett@[...].com> 
To: "Shane Caraveo" <shane@[...].com> 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: ISAPI/NSAPI FastCGI implementations available


>  Shane,
> 
>      I would like to try your implementation of FastCGI for PHP.  I have
>  downloaded your files, but do not have phpfcgi.exe.  Can you furnish that
>  file or tell me where to find it?
> 
>  Glenn Pickett
> 
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Shane Caraveo" <shane@[...].com>
>  Newsgroups: php.windows
>  To: <php-windows@[...].net>
>  Cc: "php-dev mailinglist" <php-dev@[...].net>
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:21
>  Subject: ISAPI/NSAPI FastCGI implementations available
> 
> 
>  > Hello everyone,
>  > Over the past few months I've slowly worked on implementing ISAPI and
>  NSAPI
>  > modules for FastCGI.  I've got everything done and working now in
probably
>  > what I would call a late alpha or early beta release, though I haven't
>  > versioned it at this time.
>  >
>  > I wrote these modules to provide a super stable way to run PHP on
Windows,
>  > without having to resort to CGI.  For those who don't know much about
>  > FastCGI...using the FastCGI module for PHP, there are no threading
issues
>  > since any one executable will only handle one request at a time, but you
>  > gain the performance increase of having persistent executables in
memory.
>  > This allows for persistent database connections, etc.  Since PHP is also
>  run
>  > out-of-process, there is no way PHP can crash a web server (unless there
>  is
>  > a bug in my modules :).   In my own tests using MS Web Stress
Application,
>  I
>  > got performance improvements ranging from 4x to 8x the speed of CGI.
The
>  > downside to FastCGI is that it will require more memory than a
>  multithreaded
>  > sapi module.
>  >
>  > Ultimately, I don't think FastCGI can achieve the same performance as
and
>  > built in web server module (ISAPI, etc.), but it is a good alternative,
>  > especially if you use modules that crash PHP under ISAPI, and is much
more
>  > suited to production systems than CGI.
>  >
>  > While this should be perfectly usable with something other than PHP, I
>  have
>  > not tested anything but PHP with it.
>  >
>  > You will need phpfcgi.exe also, which I am not sure if that is
distributed
>  > in the binary distributions on php.net.  If not, I'll make one available
>  > this weekend (if someone doesn't beat me to it).
>  >
>  > I'll probably be combining this source code with the fastcgi libraries
at
>  > fastcgi.com in the next month or so.  There is still work to be done on
>  this
>  > implementation, some stuff is not yet supported (such as
authentication),
>  > and the process manager is a bit kludgy but works.   A port to unix will
>  > hopefully happen eventualy.  I also implemented a small version of the
>  SAPI
>  > layer so that server modules can be added easily.
>  >
>  > You can download at:
>  > binaries: www.caraveo.com/fastcgi/fastcgi.zip
>  > source: www.caraveo.com/fastcgi/fastcgi.src.zip
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Shane Caraveo
>  >
>  >
>  >
> 


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