Re: Using the installshield vs manually

The 'installshield' distribution installs the cgi version of php along with a php.ini file which is exactly the same as the php.ini-dist which comes with the zip distribution with the following settings edited to the values set up by your progress through the wizard: SMTP sendmail_from upload_tmp_dir session.save_path error_reporting cgi.force_redirect As mentioned, this may be fine for a test setup - but for a production setup you are quite likely to want the extra performance you would get from a sapi installation and you may well need some extension modules which are only shipped with the zip distribution. With either distribution, if you are going to expose your system to the internet, you need to very carefully evaluate many security issues - the settings in php.ini being only a very small part of the whole picture. My own personal journey in this regard was to abandon the Windows platform, as I didn't think it was possible for me to learn enough to make and keep a Windows box secure :) Cheers -- Phil Driscoll