Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Dave — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:04:00 GMT

Nice series Keith! This has been very helpful for me as I was curious how to run PHP and MySQL on Windows Server 2008. I'm going to attempt a core installation of them though :)

Thanks!

Dave

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

rob — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:25:05 GMT

I've done this before on 2008 (not core, though). I completely redid my main LAMP site this way and it was dead easy. Yikes, great setup but bad acronym... Windows Iis Mysql Php.... :-)

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Keith Combs — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:58:10 GMT

I know. But WIMP is better than WAMP.

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Dave — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:51:45 GMT

Well I got PHP5 and MySQL 5.1 running on Windows Server Core but I was a little disappointed to find out that you can't use the IIS7 Manager to manage a Server Core installation of IIS7. Looks like i'll have to use Windows Web Server 2008 for my WIMP with Wordpress server.

Thanks,

Dave

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Keith Combs — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:54:06 GMT

Dave,

That's changing. See the Windows Server 2008 R2 area at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2-web-platform.aspx and the reviewers guide at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/1/f2146213-4ac0-4c50-b69a-12428ff0b077/Windows_Server_2008_R2_Reviewers_Guide_(BETA).doc

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

NL_dev — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:22:46 GMT

[quote] IIS7 stores a lot of configuration data in XML and is easily edited like Apache, but unlike Apache, picks up the changes dynamically without a restart [/quote]

For a few years now (pre iis 6 release) Apache has a --graceful flag which makes the server reread the configuration file WITHOUT restarting

next time do your homework before write bullsh*t on perfectly good and superior products

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Keith Combs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:13:29 GMT

What I am referring to and what the USR1 signal do are two different animals. The -grace command line control arg signals the apache complex to quiesce by telling the child processes to finish their transactions and exit. After that occurs, the config file is re-read and log file rotation can occur.

So what I said wasn't bull ka ka.

But we are probably splitting hairs here. The reason I said what I said is because some restarts on my tested were required to pick up some of the changes for PHP and MySQL (as I recall). It was a manual process. Telling the apache server to re-read the config files via graceful is still a manual thing for the adminstrator unless you've automated that in some way. Have you?

No such manual intervention is needed by IIS7. You make a change, it gets picked up.

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Jack — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:36:01 GMT

>the entire 90 minutes<

I see no trace of link nor the location of these / this web cast. Where is it?

re: Running LAMP on Windows Server 2008 - webcast and screencasts now available

Keith Combs — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:41:21 GMT

what happens when you click the hypperlinked word "webcast" or "webcast replay" above in the body of the post?