PHP Slow to load on IIS 6

thallium6

We’ve just migrated to IIS 6 from Apache, and we've found that everything PHP driven, especially apps that pull from a database (MySQL). All of our pages are php pages so this is “must fix” problem. I recreated our main page as straight html and it loaded quickly, as it did when we were using apache. Everything ran smoothly (and quickly) in apache. Any suggestions on what to do?

piersk

Go back to apache?

thallium6

That’s not really an option here, we are looking to utilize the compatibility between IIS and the active directory... it's a school (School of Education - University of Montana) sponsored site and we want to be able to control access, using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute. so we need it to function effectively and efficiently on IIS 6.

goldbug

If you're using the CGI binary, give the ISAPI dll a try, and vice versa -- could help to elminate that as the possible problem.

Another thing to try, is to turn output_buffering on in your php.ini and see if that helps.

piersk

Originally posted by thallium6
we want to be able to control access,

You can do that with apache, even on windows

using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute. so we need it to function effectively and efficiently on IIS 6.

Using DW and contribute (is that any good by the way??) and apache are not mutually exclusive (I think thats what I'm trying to say)

thallium6

Yeah I guess I neglected to mention the actual reason: we/I need to be able to authenticate against the active directory which is where I was going with the University sponsored site, we need people to be able to authenticate against their university domain account.

piersk

Can you do that with PHP? I know you can do that with ASP, but I'm not sure about PHP... unless you're thinking of using some sort of COM product?

rpanning

Originally posted by piersk
Go back to apache?

No kidding!

Originally posted by piersk
Using DW and contribute (is that any good by the way??)

Very much so. At the school district I work for we use both products to manage our Web site. I use DW to do all of the admin stuff and the other users use Contribute to update their content. It actualy worked quite well in our situation. I'll also note that we use Apache on a Win2k Server box.

Originally posted by piersk
Can you do that with PHP? I know you can do that with ASP, but I'm not sure about PHP... unless you're thinking of using some sort of COM product?

I think so, you can query the AD as an LDAP database I think. Don't know for sure, I was going to start looking into that.

Originally posted by thallium6
we/I need to be able to authenticate against the active directory which is where I was going with the University sponsored site, we need people to be able to authenticate against their university domain account.

I did this with Apache on our Win2k box back when I first setup our server, while ago. It was kind of an accident...lol Basicly I needed to do exactly what you want to do but didn't want IIS. If I remember right what I did was:
-Went to the properties of folder/file which needed to be secured.
-Removed all groups, including Everyone, from the security tab.
-Added the groups/user which needed access to the folder/file.

Then when anyone tried to access that folder/file via the browser, a login box popped up. The user could enter their username/password and login. Worked great. I think it was some type of Windows authentication rather than Apache.

Now, I'm not sure if that was a good way of doing it nor if that was supposed to happen but..it worked. I would check into it further if I were you though. Needless to say I don't do that any more. Check with the Apache group, they'll know more. Hope this helps!