Comments on: Important update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module

By: dt-GR

dt-GR — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:44:19 +0000

How can one enable UTF-8 encoding server variables for IIS Express (Vista x64)?

I am attempting to setup a dev site locally for WordPress using WebMatrix identical to my live server configuration and code.

My site requires UTF-8 encoding for server variable values for the WordPress category links.

The “reg add …” command successfully enables this functionality on the live server, but this command gives an error on the development server.

Thank you!

By: anurag saxena

anurag saxena — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:12:37 +0000

I need the same for windows 7. can you please help me.

By: mart

mart — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:42:22 +0000

This hotfix doesn’t fix urf8 prob here on IIS7.5 and WS2008R2 64bit. Do You know why?

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:35:53 +0000

Hi Alex, this is a good suggestion. I have updated the blog post.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:36:20 +0000

ruslany,

thanks for a confirmation. I think, it would be useful, if you include a KB link in the article above. Because this page is a first one in search results for FastCGIUtf8ServerVariables (at least in g..gl) and it would be nice, if readers will see immediately, that they have to patch a server to get FastCGI UTF8 working…

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Hi Alex,

Yes, you are right, this is the hotfix to get the utf8 url’s working on IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:17:39 +0000

ruslany,

is it necessary to install http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2277918/ to get utf8 url working on Windows 7/Windows 2008R2?

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.