Re: PHP4/Win

Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > At 11:12 2000-10-06 -0400, you wrote: > >I agree. What do you suggest we do? > > Form a mob? Now that's a great idea ;) > I'm not doubting the current efforts or anything, but a little > feedback and encouragement never hurts =) > > Having a stable Apache module (and stable version of apache itself) for > windows wouldn't hurt either. I've found some interesting material up at > www.php4win.de anyhow. Just chiming in with my 2 cents... I used to (and still am in some ways) a big fan of IIS... it's graphical management capabilities are great - for the non-command-line techie (can you be one?) IIS is nice to manage and pretty-darn-powerful. That being said, I was *forced* to switch over to Apache a few months ago (my new workstation at my new job didn't have ANY web server running, and I figured "what the heck.") And I must say, in that time, I've been VERY impressed with 1) Apache Win32s performance, 2) its flexibility, and 3) how well it matches the workings of the Unix environment. Most everything I do locally is for hosting on Unix web & application servers, so working in as much of a Unix-like environment is very helpful. So, I guess I encourage anyone who has the inkling to try out Apache (heck, just install it on a different port on your current web-server, and see what you get... for all the "warnings" about Apache Win32 being "unstable" - I have yet to see problems. Of course, this is just a development workstation and not a production webserver. But there ARE people out there hosting websites on WinNT with Apache. And I agree that flexibility is best... if you want or must use IIS, then php should take care of you, as well as those running Apache or OmniHTTP or whatever popular webserver you'd like to use. Guess I'd kind of expect the apache code to be "safer" however, as MANY of the Unix php gurus also run Apache as their webserver of choice. Know what I mean? -- Andy Hoffman Web Developer Bristol-Myers Squibb email: andy.hoffman@bms.com