FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to CGIthat provides high performance. The FastCGI extension is installable inServer Core and enables application frameworks such as PHP to achieveimproved performance and stability on Internet Information Services.Watch for recorded demonstrations of the following instructions at MSDNChannel9.  Prerequisites  See how-to configure IIS 7.5 on Server Core at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/r2coreaspnet
  IIS 7.5 (Enable the following components)
  
  • IIS-WebServerRole
  • IIS-WebServer
  • IIS-CommonHttpFeatures
  • IIS-StaticContent
  • IIS-DefaultDocument
  • IIS-DirectoryBrowsing
  • IIS-HttpErrors
  • IIS-ApplicationDevelopment
  • IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics
  • IIS-HttpLogging
  • IIS-LoggingLibraries
  • IIS-RequestMonitor
  • IIS-Security
  • IIS-RequestFiltering
  • IIS-HttpCompressionStatic
  • IIS-WebServerManagementTools
  • WAS-WindowsActivationService
  • WAS-ProcessModel
  The optional feature “ServerCore-WOW64” is enabled by default on Server Core.
  Install FASTCGI and PHP on Server Core  1. Install FastCGI feature for IIS. Run the following command:
  
           dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-CGI
         
   2. Download the php binaries for windows from http://www.php.net/downloads.php.
  3. Create a C:\php folder on Server Core.
  4. Copy the php binaries to C:\php folder on Server Core.
  
  Configure PHP on Server Core  1. We need to configure IIS7.5 to use PHP as a CGI execution environment. To do this, run the following command:
  
           appcmd set config /section:system.webServer/fastCGI / [fullPath=''C:\php\php-cgi.exe'']
         
   2.The next thing we need to do is setup the handler and module mappingfor IIS7.5 so that it understands the available verbs and how to callPHP for request processing. To do this, run the following command:
  
           appcmdset config /section:system.webServer/handlers/ [name=''PHP-FastCGI'',path=''*.php'',verb=''*'',modules=''FastCgiModule'',scriptProcessor=''C:\php\php-cgi.exe'',resourceType=''Either'']
         
   Test PHP on Server Core  1. Create an info.php file at C:\inetpub\wwwroot on Server Core with the following code:     
           <?php
            phpinfo();
            ?>
         
   2. Navigate to http://{serverCore}/info.php.