If you’ve been using the Zend Framework on a Windows platform (running IIS as the web server) and have been getting some 500 errors and have been left lacking the detail you need on the problem, you should read this new post from Rob Allen about an IIS setting that can help you out.

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Vikram Vaswani has written an article for IIS.net, describing how one can configure and setup a production web server on Windows using IIS and Zend Server. The tutorial takes you from installing Zend Server, writing a basic application, and setting up both SQL Server as well as MySQL. It then wraps up by showing how Zend Server Cache can be used to increase the performance of the application without changing any code.