Installing the FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0

Installing FastCGI

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If you use the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager console on the Windows Server 2003 operating system with Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 installed, you may want to install Microsoft's FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0. The IIS 6.0 FastCGI extension improves the performance of the Home, Monitors, and Reports pages of the console.

Note:

You do not need to use this tool with IIS 7.

Symantec provides full support for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager with the successful installation of the FastCGI extension.

If you encounter installation problems with the IIS 6.0 FastCGI extension, see the FastCGI extension information on the Microsoft Web site at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com

For your convenience, the following FastCGI extensions are located in this folder:

For more information about FastCGI, see the information available at the following URL:

http://www.iis.net/fastcgi/phpon60

To install and configure the FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0, you'll need to perform the following tasks:

The following instructions apply to Windows Server 2003.

To install the FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0

  1. Double-click one of the following files, as appropriate for your computer:

    • fcgisetup32.msi

    • fcgisetup64.msi

  2. In the Welcome to the FastCGI Setup Wizard, click Next.
  3. Check the I accept the terms in the License Agreement check box, and then click Next.
  4. Click Install.
  5. Click Finish.

To change the IIS PHP mapping

  1. Click Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
  2. In the navigation tree, under Web Sites, under Default Web Site, right-click Reporting, and then select Properties.
  3. On the Virtual Directory tab, click Configuration.
  4. On the Mappings tab, under Application extensions, click the executable path, and then click Edit.
  5. Change the path to %WINDIR%\​system32\​inetsrv\​fcgiext.dll

    where you replace %WINDIR% with the definition of %WINDIR% on your computer.

To create a FastCGI configuration

  1. Open a command prompt and change directory to the %WINDIR%\​system32\​inetsrv folder.
  2. Type the following command:

    cscript fcgiconfig.js -add -section:"PHP" -extension:php -path:"SEPM_install_folder\​PHP\​php-cgi.exe"

    where you replace SEPM_install_folder with the folder where you installed Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, which, by default, is C:\​Program Files\​Symantec\​Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.

  3. Type the following command:

    cscript fcgiconfig.js -set -section:"PHP" -InstanceMaxRequests:10000

  4. Type the following command:

    cscript fcgiconfig.js -set -section:"PHP" -EnvironmentVars:PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS:10000

To modify the php.ini file

  1. Open the folder SEPM_install_folder\​PHP, where you replace SEPM_install_folder with the folder where you installed Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, which, by default, is C:\​Program Files\​Symantec\​Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.
  2. Right-click the Php.ini file and select Properties.
  3. Uncheck the Read-only attribute check box to make the file writable.
  4. Add the following lines to the end of the file:

    fastcgi.impersonate=1

    fastcgi.log=0

  5. Save and close the file, and remember to change its read-only attribute back.

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