Re: Compatiabilty issues

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:55 +0100, Julian Muscat Doublesin wrote: > is this the issue. > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Julian Muscat Doublesin > <opensourcekb@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am runnning both IIS and Apache. The php webites are hosted > on Apacahe. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:42 +0100, Julian Muscat > Doublesin wrote: > > > Yes - running IIS 7. > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ashley Sheridan > > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:27 +0100, Julian > > Muscat Doublesin wrote: > > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > I am having trouble with the mod_rewrite. This is not working > > > on windows > > > 64bit. I am also having trouble with the directory password > > > protection. > > > However thse bot work perfectly on my UNIX Mac. > > > > > > >From my experince I can see that this is due to file > > > >system compatibility. > > > Can anyone confirm this. You would be of greate help as I am > > > going through > > > HELL right now. Can any suggest the best Unix or Linx OS for > > > hosting phph > > > websites and MySQL. > > > > > > Thank you very much in advanace. > > > > > > > > By any chance, are you using IIS on your > > Windows machine? > > > > Pretty much most hosting companies offer > > Linux web-hosting. My advice would be to try > > and use a company based in the same country > > as you are, because it's nice to be able to > > contact them during your hours when > > something goes wrong. And be ready to accept > > that things may go wrong at some point. > > > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That is why mod_rewrite isn't working! IIS doesn't > support that. It has something else instead, by a name > I forget just now. Afaik, you have to purchase the > support for this other bit as an extra module though. > > > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > Are you sure the PHP ones are running under Apache? Just to check, see what you get in the $_SERVER array. Also, have you checked to see if mod_rewrite is enabled in the httpd.conf file? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk