This setup should only be used as PHP development environment on Windows as it has not been tested on production. If you followed the steps from the previous post on PHP installation on Windows using Web Platform Installer, you will now have PHP 7.0 to do your web development. The problem using Web Platform Installer (WPI) is that most likely you won't be using the latest version of PHP (at … [Read more...]
How to Install PHP on Windows 10 Using Web Platform Installer
If you need to install a PHP on your local Windows machine with Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft has already provided a way where you can do it fairly quickly using WPI. Keep in mind though, this setup has not been tested for production environment. So only use it as a PHP development environment for Windows. Steps Open Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows … [Read more...]
How to Manage IIS Servers Remotely
Managing several IIS servers can be overwhelming if you have to RDP to each server to perform your tasks. Unfortunately, there are many IT professionals still doing it the hard way by not taking advantage of this capability to manage IIS servers from their workstations. Using IIS Manager for Remote Administration, you can manage remote IIS with the same experience as if you're logged into the … [Read more...]
How to Install IIS Management Console on Windows
Here are the steps to install IIS Management Console as a prerequisite to manage IIS servers remotely. The examples are shown using . Steps Make sure you don't have any RDP sessions opened during installation otherwise you will see an error. Right-click the Windows Start Button, and click on Control Panel. Click on Programs. Click on Turn Windows features on or off. Find and expand … [Read more...]
How to Cache Specific Static Files and Directories on IIS
As part of IIS performance tuning to improve a web page load speed, in general you want to enable browser caching by double-clicking on HTTP Response Headers in IIS Manager, click on Set Common Headers and check the Expire Web content:, then set the After: with an x number of days. Often times though, you may want to be more granular in IIS static content caching for different type of … [Read more...]