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[Alan T. Miller]

Everything is so tighty itegrated with Cold Fusion now, Sessions and more
that make integrating the two all at once unlikely, as I am only one guy and
there is simply too much code to rewrite, yet I need to fix some things now,
which I can do faster in PHP.

The way this site is currently written, to do as you suggest would force me
to write a bunch of hokey code that I will eventually just have to toss. I
am trying to keep some of the Cold Fusion in Place that is working
relatively well, and until we are ready to make the swap alltogether to a
new server, make my additions and fixes in PHP with anticipation for that
switch.

Eventually, both IIS and Cold Fusion will be gone, I just need to work
around some of it for now and we only have one production server at the
moment to mess around with. I would really like to know if the phpisapi.dll
is relatively stable, and would like to hear if anyone has actually used it
in a production environment.

Thanks,
Alan



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To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP in production on Microsoft IIs


> Just wondering why can't you point or redirect to the resulting page on a
> system running php and redhat and versa.  This will can make the
transition
> a little more smooth.
>
> Matthew
>
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>  >     Just out of pure curiosity, and utter hatred for IIS...why, may I
> ask,
>  > are you using it? What can a Microsoft product do that FreeBSD / RedHat
>  > can't?
>
> Believe me, I am no fan of IIS but in this particular case, the site was
> written in Cold Fusion, which in turn needs to run on IIs (for licensing
> reasons). The real reason I am stuck with IIs for the moment is that the
> site I am working on just has too much to rewrite in PHP right now. I plan
> to make a transition slowly to PHP on a RedHat machine once we have all
the
> major site functionality rebuilt in PHP. Until then however, I want to
> implement some important features on the site and begin rewriting other
apps
> in PHP to work alongside the Cold Fusion stuff until we are ready to make
> that final move. So technically there is nothing that Windows IIs can do
> that FreeBSD or Redhat can do right now except run our only licensed copy
of
> Cold Fusion (sucks. I know) :(
>
>
>  >     As for the ISAPI modules, why even use them? Why not write it all
in
>  > PHP? Personally, I think that PHP is better then perl/cgi. Let us know
> what
>  > this module does, and perhaps we can help you to port it over to a PHP
>  > script.
>
> What I am referring to here is that it is my understanding there are two
> ways to install PHP on windows with IIs. You can run it as a CGI, that is
to
> map the .php files to execute the php.exe file, or map the .php files to
> execute the /sapi/php4isapi.dll file. With the former, you load the whole
> php.exe executable on every invocation on PHP, with the other PHP runs as
a
> module in the server memory. I remeber a while ago, the module was not all
> that stable and was not reccomended for production systems. I was hoping
to
> find out if that is still the case, and if anyone had any luck doing so on
a
> busy server (100,000 hits a day).
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
>
>
>  >
>  >     What bugs are you encountering? Give us the errors, and the code --
> I'll
>  > try and help you.
>  >
>  > Good luck.
>  > -Bradley Baumann
>  >
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Alan T. Miller" <amiller at hollywood101.com>
>  > To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
>  > Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 12:26 PM
>  > Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP in production on Microsoft IIs
>  >
>  >
>  > > I have always used PHP with either RedHat or FreeBSD. However, I am
>  > working
>  > > on a site now that is equipped with windows 2000 and IIS. I am
> considering
>  > > using PHP on this site and was curious to hear from anyone who has
any
>  > > expereince using PHP on a reletively high traffic site on IIS.
>  > >
>  > > The current site gets over 100,000 hits a day. For my own internal
>  > > development I use PHP as a CGI module and I know that eats up a lot
of
>  > > resources, I don't think this would be a good option for our
production
>  > > server. I know that you can run PHP on IIs as an ISAPI module but the
> last
>  > > time I looked into this it seemed it was still buggy and not really
> ready
>  > > for production.
>  > >
>  > > So if you were me, what would you do and why? Of course at this
point,
>  > > ditching windows is not an option. It is in the long term plan
however.
>  > >
>  > > Thanks in advance,
>  > > Alan
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