Hi Pierre. Thanks, it is all getting a lot clearer now. However, there is still one more problem. Initially when i deployed PHP on this server I used the 5.3 nts version but could not get it working. If i ran the cammand line i could see it was working but it would not deliver the pages via a webbrowser. As per my earlier post i get a dot net error. This brought me to the point where i started thinking this is a 64bit issue. I also stated earlier that i think there is a setting that is not configured and that is not on the documentation and that is why it is not working. I however have been unable to figure out where the problem is. There is a lot of mention of running a command on IIS to get it to run as a 32bit version. Is this true? Best Regards, Morné Fourie AFRIDATA.net Cell: +27 83 283 5893 Office: +27 83 283 5893 Fax: 086 658 5062 Email: morne@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:morne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ________________________________ From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thu 2010/02/11 12:05 PM To: Morne Fourie Cc: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 64-bit PHP binaries hi, On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Morris <morne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Pierre. I believe this statement was made a while back as well and no > show. How can we get them to post the RC1 code so I can test it on one of my > staging servers? It would be great to know if there is a future in PHP > (Smirk) as we are deploying some production sites on it. The problem Is that > we may have webapps in the future which are developed for 64 bit and then we > cannot run them as the server is in 32 bit mode. Or am I missing something > big here? I am fairly new to IIS 7 on win2k8 so it is still a steep learning > curve. Again: The recommendation (from php.net and from Microsoft) is to run PHP x86 (32bit) on Windows x64 platform. It works very well (better than php x64 on x64) and is proven stable. PHP Web applications won't see the difference as PHP is portable, it is not aimed to be run on x64 or x86, it has to work on both. The differences at this stage on windows are: - The libraries are not tested on windows x64 and for some of them not even ported - There is no gain (no performence improvement, no larger integer or whatever else you are looking for) About configuring PHP x86 on IIS x64, this process is the same than for windows+IIS x86. See our manuals, the IIS section. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net <http://blog.thepimp.net/> | http://www.libgd.org <http://www.libgd.org/>
