Re: Differences between PHP on LAMP and PHP on Windows Servers

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote: > ** > On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 20:54 +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Gates, Jeff <GatesJ@si.edu> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what differences I might encounter by working with PHP on a Unix server > > verses working with PHP on a Windows server. We use Windows production servers here but many of us > > would like to get more LAMP environments. > > > > So, I'm wondering if I can use the hive mind here to get a sense of the pros and cons > > of each platform. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jeff > > Apart from all other suggestions, one of the most common errors are > because of different php.ini settings. If you can keep those settings > (mostly) equal, there will not be that many errors. > > - Matijn > > > > I would say that's not limited to the distinction between Windows and > Linux but any server. I've seen what appears to be an identical setup (same > version of PHP, MySQL, etc) fail only because of a small setting in the > php.ini file, just because the default was slightly different on the second > system; both were running Linux. > > Yes, ofcourse, that comment was meant for any two systems. - Matijn