fastcgi

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mark Adams wrote:
> I understand that mapserver now has fastcgi support. I would like to take
> advantage of this. I found a HOWTO on fastcgi under windows
> (FastCGIOnWin32), however that appeared Apache specific. I followed the
> links from the fastcgi home page and found a Windows binary distribution
> from 2002, consisting of a zip file with 2 DLLS, one nsapi and the other
> isapi.
> 
> But - no instructions. What do I so with the Isapi DLL? Do I need to
> enable this extension in IIS, do I just copy the dll to my system32
> folder... Anybody?
> 
> My environment is windows 2003 server, PHP running as CGI, and mapserver
> with PHP mapscript.

Mark,

I had to do quite a bit of hacking to get all the components together
to make fastcgi work under Apache on win32.   I'm sure it can be made to
work under IIS, but I'm not saying it will be easy.  I have certainly
never tried, so I have no idea what issues you will run into.

Best regards,
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