using php on microsoft 2003 server

Colleagues:

  This a cross posting.

  Thanks to all who recommended information on learning php
- it was
helpful.

   This inquiry is more specific.  I am very interested to
hear of
experiences using php with on a microsoft 2003 server - this
is our server.


   I am very interested to hear of any problems, successes, 
etc.

Thanks very much.

-Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
Adult Services Librarian
West Chicago Public Library
West Chicago, Illinois
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Ray,
	We run PHP on our web server here at the UCLA CLICC Lab (we
are
a unit of the UCLA Library, but our websites are in support
of our
computing commons and electronic classrooms).  We've been
running php5
for about 24 months as an ISAPI module on Windows Server
2003 with good
results.
	I've noticed that some of the extensions don't always work
perfectly for Windows (like php_openssl or php_snmp, for
example)...
some releases of PHP they work great, and some they don't
work at all,
so I need to test them individually.  The core distribution
works pretty
well, but my *unscientific* observation is it doesn't always
work well
on larger, enterprise level servers with lots of RAM.  With
some
releases, they work great on my smaller test servers, but on
my
production server I sometimes get strange memory problems. 
I'm running
php-5.2.1 right now and it works great, but php-5.2.4 gave
me problems
so I'm waiting to test the next release.

Hope that helps!
Ricardo

/*************************************************
Ricardo M. Garcia
Systems Manager
College Library Instructional Computing Commons
145 Powell Library
University of California, Los Angeles
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Subject: [Web4lib] using php on microsoft 2003 server

Colleagues:

  This a cross posting.

  Thanks to all who recommended information on learning php
- it was
helpful.

   This inquiry is more specific.  I am very interested to
hear of
experiences using php with on a microsoft 2003 server - this
is our
server.


   I am very interested to hear of any problems, successes, 
etc.

Thanks very much.

-Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
Adult Services Librarian
West Chicago Public Library
West Chicago, Illinois
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I think that this site provides exceptionally clear,
detailed info on  
how to install PHP on Win 2k3:

http://
www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

One thing to bear in  mind is that IIS has no free
equivalent of  
mod_rewrite, so, if you need that functionality, you have to
purchase  
a third party product.

Thanks,

Cary

Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com

On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Raumin Ray Dehghan wrote:

> Colleagues:
>
>   This a cross posting.
>
>   Thanks to all who recommended information on learning
php - it was
> helpful.
>
>    This inquiry is more specific.  I am very interested
to hear of
> experiences using php with on a microsoft 2003 server -
this is our  
> server.
>
>
>    I am very interested to hear of any problems,
successes,  etc.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> -Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
> Adult Services Librarian
> West Chicago Public Library
> West Chicago, Illinois
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4libwebjunction.org
> http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
>

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