FastCGi on IIS... The tale of Microsoft and my new Perl Module...

Hi All,
  I've been looking into FastCGI a lot. Seeing that it works with lots 
of different servers and not just Apache was very attractive (sorry 
mod_perl). Also one of the big things was seeing that Microsoft (as much 
as I dislike em) have embraced FastCGI and released their own library 
for IIS 5.1 and IIS6. Further more IIS7 on Windows 2008 (I've been 
testing RC0) comes with their FastCGI library as standard. Wicked :)

Just one drawback, Microsoft has been working with Zend (yes the PHP 
guys) to release this FastCGI library, and they tell you exactly how it 
can work with PHP. They go on to say it'll work with other languages... 
but they don't really know how. Bummer. Looking through the forums I saw 
a guy "Andrew Sears" trying to get it working with Ruby on Rails, he 
also gave me a great deal of help, putting me on the right track when I 
posted about getting it working with Perl. The only other post about 
Perl and their FastCGI was a guy complaining that he wanted a guide...

So me decided to get it working miself...

Now I've released FCGI::IIS on CPAN, 3rd revision so far.

I've got it working on Windows 2003, and Windows 2008. Vista IIS7 is 
pending an update from Microsoft for me to be able to try it out.

It's working (mostly) for perl scripts that want to run a bit faster on 
IIS using FastCGI (no FastCGI code needed in the actual scripts, so this 
should work with almost any windows compatible perl script) I've not put 
together a guide for running your Perl FastCGI scripts in their own 
application pool... yet...

Long and short of it is, if you want to use FastCGI and Perl, then use 
the FCGI::IIS module, a guide for doing s is at:-
http://www.cosmicscripts.com/servers/fastcgi.html#iis

Lyle


P.S. I tried to email the developers of FastCGI, i.e. rob, mbrown, 
davidb about helping with the FastCGI site, guides and development. I 
haven't heard back yet so I hope you all got my email. If not please 
email me and we can start working together :) In the mean time I'll try 
an help out on this list where I can.
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