PHP and IIS6

Hi All,

We have hired a new app developer who is native in PHP and I am tasked with
deploying a server solution that will enable to him to develop in PHP...

I know PHP and Apache work very well together, but I have heard some horor
stories about PHP on IIS.

The brief research I have done so far showed some promise with ZEND and
FastCGI. Does anyboy have any information regarding the limitations of PHP in
a Windows environment? Thanks for any info or direction.

-mike

RE: PHP and IIS6

There is no problem with running PHP on IIS. I inherited 10 clients two years
ago who were all running PHP. While there was alittle pain getting the sites
running, it has not been any issue since and negligible performance on my
server (I am running 70+ other ASP.Net sites).

You have to install PHP, then in IIS configure the CGI-BIN folder to run as
an application. Next, under the directory tab, configuration button, add PHP
as a mapping to the executable (ex: c:\php\php.exe). You can also install
MySql for windows and let PHP do its thing. I would not install Apache.

The PHP site has detailed step by step instructions:
http://us2.php.net/install.windows
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Michael C.
Microsoft Certified Solution Provider
Independent Solution Vendor



"MEK" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We have hired a new app developer who is native in PHP and I am tasked with
> deploying a server solution that will enable to him to develop in PHP...
>
> I know PHP and Apache work very well together, but I have heard some horor
> stories about PHP on IIS.
>
> The brief research I have done so far showed some promise with ZEND and
> FastCGI. Does anyboy have any information regarding the limitations of PHP in
> a Windows environment? Thanks for any info or direction.
>
> -mike