You've been using IIS Manager to manage remote IIS from your local computer. But how do you export the connections list if you move to a new computer or just to back it up if you lost all data? This post will show you how you can export and back up IIS Manager connections list on your local PC. All connections in IIS Manager are saved in a binary file called InetMgr.preferences and it … [Read more...]
How to Upgrade to PHP 7.2 on IIS (Windows 10)
This tutorial is a shorter version of the previous post upgrading to PHP 7.1 on Windows 10 and it is intended as a follow-up on how to upgrade your PHP to the latest version (in this case PHP 7.2) if you have already installed the previous version of PHP 7 in your Windows system. Steps to Upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2 Download PHP for Windows. Since we’re using PHP as FastCGI, we’ll use … [Read more...]
How to Upgrade to PHP 7.1 on Windows 10
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...]