PHP with WinCache on IIS
In this article you'll learn how to install PHP on Windows Server IIS. With the Windows Cache Extension for PHP (WinCache). WinCache enabled PHP gives you great performance for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla websites, and decreases CPU usage. In this post I'll show you it's not hard to set up a high performing PHP stack on Windows Server (IIS). So, let's optimize our PHP hosting on Windows Server!
Remove ETags HTTP response header in IIS
Yahoo! YSlow recommends removing Entity tags - also known as "ETag". Unfortunately removing the ETag response header is not an easy task on Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule.
"The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value"
The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value is an IIS error telling you the length of the given URL exceeds a limit. The Windows Server IIS maximum URL length is defined by the HttpRuntimeSection.MaxUrlLength property. Its value is 260 characters. This may cause problems with longer than configured maxUrlLength URL's, and here is how to resolve this max URL length issue.