[pmwiki-users] Best installation choices for PmWiki on Win2000 with IIS5?
Hartl, Bob
hartl.r at ghc.org
Wed May 3 21:02:11 CDT 2006
Joachim and Neil, thanks for your replies and advice. You convinced me
to avoid FastCGI, at least until it becomes a more mature product.
My experience is with Windows/IIS, so today I initially implemented PHP
4.4.2 using ISAPI. So far so good. (CGI is too inefficient I think for
the server that I plan to install PMWiki/PHP on.) Within IIS, I will
'isolate' the PMWiki app in its own process, given that PHP/ISAPI might
be unstable. But perhaps the potential instability depends on the
PMWiki PHP scripts -- and possibly PMWiki might do well with PHP/ISAPI.
We'll see. If there are problems, I'll try another solution.
Thanks for your help.
R. Hartl
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Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Best installation choices for PmWiki on
Win2000 with IIS5?
Hartl, Bob schrieb:
> I plan to install PmWiki on a Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0. What
> are the best installation choices:
> 1) PHP 4.x vs. PHP 5.x?
PmWiki should work fine either way.
> 2) Installing PHP using CGI, ISAPI or FastCGI?
CGI will work well. It produces higher server load, which may or may not
be a problem for you. (I'd recommend trying CGI first and reconfigure if
PmWiki turns out to be a server hog.)
I don't know about ISAPI. I tend to stay away from Microsoft server
stuff.
FastCGI has had a long history of instabilities and hard-to-reproduce
bugs. For me, switching to FastCGI made the server occasionally lag for
half a minute or more, even under light load; I'll want to reverse that
decision as soon as I can.
I have heard good things about fcgid, which is an alternative to
FastCGI, but I don't know any details yet.
Caveat: all this applies to Linux. I have no experience with running
FastCGI or fcgid on IIS.
Oh, and if you still have a choice, select a Linux/Apache platform. Less
security holes overall. (It does take more time to set up unless you
have an ISP who'll set up PHP for you.)
Regards,
Jo
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Yet another choice that works flawlessly for me is:
- Win 2K server
- Apache 2.0.52 with
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
- PHP 4.3.10.10
Neil Herber
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