Multi-site on IIS: done it?

Interesting articles on per-site php config here (IIS6) and here (IIS7, using the applicationHost.config file). In addition to providing separate fastcgi process pools, this is helpful for things like running PhPMyadmin and Drupal o the same machine, since they want different session.save_handler settings.

He's also got a nice overview of how to do this on IIS7 with a new feature of PhP 5.3:

Now you have two options:

1. Define the per-site PHP settings in the main php.ini file
2. Allow web application owners to define those settings in user defined INI files.

Neato.

chicagomom on Twitter and d.o.

Thanks for the links, I will check them out. I have and admit it was a struggle. I just need to refresh my memory and post the steps if anyone else is interested. There was one bit that had me going around in circles for a while.

http://drupal.org/node/215549

We have been running multisite with no problems for over a year on a WIMP stack. We used to use ISAPI_rewrite but no longer need it on WS2008. It's pretty much the same as multi-site on LAMP, except that you use virtual directories instead of symlinks if you want to do subdirectory sites.

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