PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform

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This video series will walk you through how easy it is to deploy a PHP web site on the Microsoft Platform. In the first set of this series we'll use Drupal 7 as an example and show how to properly deploy and configure for scale on Windows Server 2008, starting from the basic installation up to the creation of a highly scalable web farm with load balancing features and much more. We'll deeply explore the IIS 7.5 platform, including URL Rewrite, WinCache for PHP which provides opcode and user data cache features, Application Request Routing, WebFarm Framework which provides reverse proxy features and AppFabric Cache for distributed cache support. As a bonus we'll also cover an OSS command line tool Drush which is commonly used in the Drupal community and show how we've worked with the community to make this compatible with Windows.

We have a ton of deeply technical content to cover so buckle up and get ready for the ride! Microsoft MVP and Red Hat Certified Engineer Alessandro Pilotti will be your guide through this series.

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9 minutes, 30 seconds

1. Deploying Drupal with Web Platform Installer
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM 1 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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Deploying Drupal 7 on Windows is very easy with Web Platform Installer. In this session you will learn how to start from scratch and deploy a Drupal 7 web site on IIS 7.5, with MySQL as a database backend, in a matter of minutes. The demo is based on Windows Server 2008 R2, but works…
10 minutes, 37 seconds

2. Deploying Drupal Without Web Platform Installer
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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Web Platform Installer is the fastest and easiest way to have a running Drupal site on Windows, but there are some scenarios where you might prefer to install your web site manually. This webcast is also a great opportunity to look in detail at the steps that are needed to deploy your web…
21 minutes, 10 seconds

3. Building Drupal Web Farms with IIS – part 1
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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This webcast covers the theoretical introduction to Web Farms and how to build Drupal Web Farms with IIS. Don't miss the second part of the webcast (also part of this series) where a full demo on creating Drupal Web Farms with 4 virtual machines will be presented. If you are already familiar…
30 minutes, 59 seconds

4. Building Drupal Web Farms with IIS – part 2
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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This is the second of two wecasts dedicated to how to create a great Drupal web farm on IIS. Get ready: in less than one hour we'll create a drupal web farm from scratch, by using four virtual machines: a load balancer running ARR and WFF, two hosts provisioned automatically via Web…
21 minutes, 19 seconds

5. IIS URL Rewrite Module
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:26 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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URL Rewrite is a great free IIS 7.x and 8 extension. It's the technology used to generate clean URLs in Drupal on IIS and the rough equivalent of the mod_cgi module in Apache. In this webcast you'll see how to install URL Rewrite, how to create rules and rewrite maps and how to troubleshoot…
19 minutes, 55 seconds

6. Web Deployment Tool for Drupal sites
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:26 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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In this webcast you will learn about Web Deployment tool for Drupal sites, which simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Websites. Through out the webcast you will see some very useful scenarios for deploying and migrating Drupal websites and…
38 minutes, 32 seconds

7. PHP and FastCGI Performance Optimization
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM 0 alexp , Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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PHP is a first class citizen on IIS. A lot has been done in order to make sure that PHP can work well and fast on Windows. We will start by installing PHP with PHP Manager and discussing all the options including what thread safe vs non thread safe and VC6 vs VC9 means. Next we'll take a look at how…
38 minutes, 48 seconds

8. Drupal, Memcached and Solr on Windows
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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When it's time to design medium and large Drupal web sites, Memcached and Apache Solr are among the first technologies that come to mind. This webcast will show you how to properly configure and deploy Memcached and Solr on Windows, including all the required Drupal integration. The webcast includes…
41 minutes, 26 seconds

9. Drupal on IIS with SQL Server
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform May 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM 0 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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Drupal 7 provides great support for SQL Server as a backend and there are a lot of reasons why you'll like this combination. This webcast starts by showing you how to install a Drupal 7 web site with a SQL Server Express backend in a few clicks with WebPi and then discusses how to create and…
29 minutes, 42 seconds

10. Managing Drupal on Windows with Drush
PHP at Scale on the Microsoft Platform Jun 04, 2012 at 12:47 PM 2 Grace Francisco , Alessandro PIlotti and ferbadano

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When it comes to Drupal management and deployment, Drush is a must. This webcasts is about installing and configuring Drush on Windows, in order to manage local and remote Drupal sites on Windows and Linux. In case you might also want to try the demos in a virtual machine,…

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