Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-17 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 4:10 pm, John Lim wrote: > 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

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-17 Thread John Lim
"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 whi

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-17 Thread Phil Driscoll
> I'm not asking a newbie question about how to setup a server!!, im asking > specifically about the php installation only. In this respect, both methods are identical. You will end up with the same php.ini file. If you then want to further modify the file, you need to get in there with a text

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-17 Thread Daniel Crompton
Hi Thanks for the feedback. I think we are talking about different things here. I am asking specifically about the PHP installshield vs the manual way and any security issues/differences the installsheild in itself creates. The other things you mention like making sure win2k is patched with the

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Monday 16 June 2003 5:21 pm, Daniel Crompton wrote: > > My only concern is any security issue. I'm still unsure exactly what > security issue people are reffering to. > i.e. what are the consequences of using the installshield in real terms. Exactly the same as using the zip distribution and

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel Crompton
Hi Phil Thanks for the info. The thing is i have already installed using the installshield on a number of online servers and this all works perfectly fine. It appears i do not need any of the extra extension modules which are only installed with the zip version because everything is working ok us

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
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_t

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-15 Thread Daniel Crompton
- Original Message - From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Crompton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Windows Helplist (PHP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs ma

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:08 PM Subject: [PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually Hi There are two ways to install php on win2k, either manually or using the installshield. I have always installed php using the windows installs

[PHP-WIN] Using the installshield vs manually

2003-06-15 Thread Daniel Crompton
Hi There are two ways to install php on win2k, either manually or using the installshield. I have always installed php using the windows installshield which has always worked perfectly. (win2k/iis) The paragraph below suggests you should not install php this way. Can anyone tell me why this sa