Comments on: Important update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:38:54 +0000

Hi Matt,

I am not sure I understand. Are you setting the timeouts to the maximums in order to disable timeouts? If so then the maximum allowed values for those settings should not be affected by the update. Do you see the different maximum values in the IIS_Schema.xml on TestBox1 and TestBox2?

By: matt

matt — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:24:44 +0000

ruslany,

I’ve ran into an issue while comparing 2 separate fastCGI installs.
TestBox1:(installed yesterday)
TestBox2:(installed in Janurary)

This issue is focused around the following sectionSchema = system.webServer/fastCgi

TestBox1:fastCgi attribute settings for idleTimeout, activityTimeout, and requestTimeout are all set at 10,2592000

TestBox2:fastCgi attribute sdttings for idleTimeout = 10,604800
activityTimeout = 10,3600
requestTimeout = 10,604800

I need an activityTimeout of longer than 3600sec. Does this update address my issue? I’ve found little clarification relating to this other than taking ownership of the iis_schema.xml and editing manually. Rather than going this route I’d like to understand how my newer install, TestBox1, has larger maximum settings. Which component, update, module, etc has been updated to cause this change.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:59:52 +0000

Hi Almir, thanks for reporting this. We were not able to repro this before, but we will try again with SP1 of Windows Server 2008. May be that is causing the problems.

You can run PHP and WordPress on IIS 7 without the updated FastCGI module. It is still fully functional even without the update.

By: almir

almir — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:58:30 +0000

found the workaround….
1) stopped iisadmin
2) installed WordPress together with KB980363 (this step crashed IIS, as usual, giving 503 error)
3) uninstalled KB980363. (fixed the 503 error)
4) completed WordPress installation. All websites up and running.

Now, the question is – how is the IIS 7 going to work with PHP without the updated FastCGI module???

All websites up and running including wordpress… no issues.

By: almir

almir — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:25:31 +0000

Johny,

I followed your example, stopped IIS admin service, FTP as well as the SMTP services which let me install wordpress together with KB980363 update but then I had the same 503 error on all my websites

By: Johny

Johny — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:51:00 +0000

There is something definitely wrong with KB980363. I think I managed to fix, but it required to stop IIS Admin manually and rerun the installation process. Then it worked.

I hope it helps. Ruslany, can you check this behaviour and provide a fix ?

By: almir

almir — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:59:51 +0000

Hi,

My Web Platform Installer installation of WordPress blogging tool hangs on the step when the Update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI (KB980363) is being installed. I am installing it on Windows Server 2008 standard 32 bit.

I am able to install KB980363 manually but then all my websites return 503 error.

Any suggestions on how to get around this issue?

thank you.

By: Thobaa

Thobaa — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:49:20 +0000

Hey Ruslany u so fast and helpful.
well i got struck on installing joomla on localhost iis7 on windows 7. Everything installed correctly i mean joomla, mysql, and php. Joomla installs from web platform installer without error but when i try to run it in browser it says Error establishing a database connection
??please help

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:19:44 +0000

Hi Johny,

I have not seen this behavior. Are you talking about Web PI 3.0 beta? Also, have you tried to install this update separately, without using Web PI?

By: Johny

Johny — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:53:09 +0000

When I try to use the new WPI, it hangs installing this fix. I´m using 2008 32 bits.

Have you seen this behaviour ? How can I fix it ?