"Phil Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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. > Hi Phil, Haven't corresponded with you for a long while. I created a windows installer for PHP 4.0.x a long time ago, and gave up because i thought you were doing a fine job with the default PHP installer. Recently i discovered FastCGI and Turck-MMCache which appear to work very nicely on IIS/Windows. FastCGI is a pretty reliable sapi, and Turck MMCache appears to be the only major open source Accelerator to work well on Windows. I am building a new IIS installer that includes FastCGI and Turck MMCache bundled in. It's still in beta (because Turck MMCache has some issues with FastCGI that the author is fixing). If you are interested in finding out more, let me know and i will mail the beta url to you. > 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 :) With the latest windows update patch system from Microsoft, security is not as big an issue as it used to be. In fact, if you look at IIS 6.0, you will see that it has improved a lot, taking some of the best ideas of Apache... Bye, John Lim PS: Daniel, if you are also interested in trying the installer, let me know. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
