Installing fcgi on IIS 6.0 with PHP 5.2.8

Install MySQL
Download PHP 5.2.8 win32 installer
Install PHP 5.2.8

Be sure to install extensions needed for WordPress

Select these extensions:
GD2
Gettext
Multi-Byte String
Mimetypec
MySQL
MySQLi
PDO/MySQL
SQLite (in case MySQL fails)
XML-RPC (WordPress needs this)

Be sure to install Pear and the PHP Manual, too.

Next step: Install FastCGI with the installer.

For more info check out this page

Also check out info how to install FastCGI on IIS 6.0.

Install eAccelerator.

My php.ini is below:

[PHP]
cgi.force_redirect=0
extension_dir=”C:\Program Files\PHP\ext”
[PHP_GD2]
extension=php_gd2.dll
[PHP_GETTEXT]
extension=php_gettext.dll
[PHP_MBSTRING]
extension=php_mbstring.dll
[PHP_MIME_MAGIC]
extension=php_mime_magic.dll
[PHP_MYSQL]
extension=php_mysql.dll
[PHP_MYSQLI]
extension=php_mysqli.dll
[PHP_PDO]
extension=php_pdo.dll
[PHP_PDO_MYSQL]
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
[PHP_SQLITE]
extension=php_sqlite.dll
[PHP_XMLRPC]
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll

;eAccelerator
extension=”eAccelerator.dll”
eaccelerator.shm_size=”150″
eaccelerator.cache_dir=”C:\cache”
eaccelerator.enable=”1″
eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
eaccelerator.debug=”0″
eaccelerator.filter=””
eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”3600″
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”1800″
eaccelerator.shm_only=”1″
eaccelerator.compress=”0″
eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″
eaccelerator.keys = “shm_only”
eaccelerator.sessions = “shm_only”
eaccelerator.content = “shm_only”

My fcgiext.ini in %WINDOWS%/system32/inetsrv is below:

[Types]
php=C:\PROGRA~1\PHP\php-cgi.exe

[C:\PROGRA~1\PHP\php-cgi.exe]
QueueLength=999
MaxInstances=20
InstanceMaxRequests=500
IdleTimeout=200
RequestTimeout=60

The performance you get on a 2GhZ processor with 1GiB of RAM is decent:

Transactions:                     662 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                 123.15 secs
Data transferred:              21.96 MB
Response time:                  8.29 secs
Transaction rate:               5.38 trans/sec
Throughput:                     0.18 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   44.55
Successful transactions:         662
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:           13.25
Shortest transaction:           4.23

5.38 transactions per second is 464832 hits per day.

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