Re: Simple question (what's ISAPI ?)

On Monday 13 August 2001 08:46, Tribun wrote: > Hi folks. > > Can someone tell me what ISAPI is? It's microsoft's API for running software in IIS. > I've requested how I could run PHP faster, if 20 USER's access my files at > the same time. Using ISAPI means that php stays alive while the server is alive, so there is no overhead in starting and closing down php.exe on each request. There is a perfomance benefit, although once the script is actually going the speed is the same. i.e. the speed benefit is a fixed amount of time per script. This means you'll notice the speedup much more on shorter scripts. Now the bad news. The PHP ISAPI module is not very stable. For me, it won't work for more than a couple of requests without falling over. Others report more success. If you want the speed benefit of a server API version, plus stability, change from IIS to Apache and run the Apache module version of PHP. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll