Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Rob Hood -
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I'm in the process of piloting moodle using a Win2k server.  As I was reading through the documentation for PHP,  I came across the following:

Do not use Apache 2.0.x and PHP in a production environment neither on Unix nor on Windows. For information on why, read the following FAQ entry   (http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.apache2)

Of course the author of the document talks about getting a million hits a day in his definition of a production environment.

Has anybody had problems with this set up.  Any advice would be helpful.  Thank you in advance 

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Re: Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Thomas Haynes -
Rob...

You are doing a pilot anyway.

I have had great luck with Apache 2 and PHP 4 on a linux machine. I have installed moodle on various machines Windows machines (as demos) with Apache 2 and  PHP 5 using ApacheTriad. They have seemed to work pretty well, but they have never been loaded very heavily.

I say give it a try.

Regards...   Tom
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Re: Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Andrew O'Brien -
After many frustrating hours trying to get set up Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 4 separatley, I came across Xampp in one of the posts already on these boards. I had it installed and running in 10 minutes - no problems since then!
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Re: Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Vlad Alexa Mancini -
There was quite a beef between apache and php because of that , but it eventually settled.

But that all passed and apache2 is prety stable even under windows nowdays and more and more people are upgrading from 1.3

BTW , the name of that program is Apache2Triad not ApacheTriad


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Re: Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Vlad Alexa Mancini -
There was quite a beef between apache and php because of that , but it eventually settled.

But that all passed and apache2 is prety stable even under windows nowdays and more and more people are upgrading from 1.3

BTW , the name of that program is Apache2Triad not ApacheTriad


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Re: Windows server: PHP 5.0 and Apache 2.0 not compatible in a Windows production environ?

by Howard Miller -
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The short answer in that Apache and PHP work on Windows. However they are not inherently Windows applications. The greater part of the development effort goes toward the Unix/Linux platform. There is much less testing and on Windows and hence a greater chance of Windows specific bugs going undetected. I think you have to balance that against running IIS and the fun and games you get with that.

To my mind, you don't run a production web server on a Windows platform - period!
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