[Pmwiki-users] advanced? features on IIS server?

[Robert Williams]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:59:32PM -0800, Robert Williams wrote:
> 
>>It appears we are one of the few installations on remote hosted IIS. 
>>We're trying to get some additional features turned on, within the 
>>constraints of a Win2k box that we don't own (hosted by Tactical systems).
>>
>>Page versioning requires a diff like tool.  Same Q.
> 
> 
> The Gnuwin32 tools provide diff/patch functionality under windows, the
> question then becomes one of being able to execute external binaries on
> your webhosting provider.  If it's possible to execute external binaries,
> we can probably make this work.

Therein lies the rub.  The site is hosted on 
http://www.tacticalsystems.com/  (which answers your last Q, we like it)
but we can't put executables on it.  (Bill correct me if I'm wrong.)
Cygwin  (http://www.cygwin.com/)is another GNU GPL option for useful 
functionality on MS.

> Actually, email notification (in the mailposts.php script) uses PHP's
> built-in mail() function by default-- 

Right you are.  Bill made some change (what?) that made it start 
working.  Something to do with it being a shared box.


> Along these lines, can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive web hosting
> provider that is running IIS and PHP?  I'd like to play with setting up
> and configuring PmWiki in an IIS-hosted environment so I can provide
> better instructions.  Or, if someone could provide me (free) access to 
> such an environment for testing purposes, that'd be great.
> 
> Pm

When we get this sorted out I'll write a page to link off of 
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/Installation describing installation 
on IIS.  It's the least I can do for the fine service you've been providing.

-robertw