On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Logan L <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using PHP via FastCGI is how you use PHP with IIS. I haven't seen it used > much with Apache via this method. I wonder what the benefits and drawbacks > are. Will have to google on this subject. > > Also I would like to 'ask the audience' on the difficulty of building your > own Apache binaries. It is not something that I have done before. At work > we > have Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. It is my understanding that the VC9 > binaries must be built with 2008. > > From a security perspective, using the ApacheLounge binaries is not an > option for us. It is too dependent on one person whom is not directly > associated with the ASF. > > The only other possible option that I thought of was to use Zend Server. > Although I am not totally sure about this, I need to follow up with the > technical lead for that project. > > -Logan > > Using fastcgi with apache isn't rocket science either: with fastcgi you can run your workers under a given user account, you can use per vhost php.ini, and so fort, general fastcgi/php rules apply. for the VC9 build howto see http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Win32VC9Build (I'm not 100% sure, that it's up-to-date) some info from the ASF guys on the topic: http://marc.info/?t=129646489200002&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=130045840600002&r=1&w=2 William A. Rowe Jr builds the official windows apache binaries, and he is fine/endorses the apachelounge builds: https://twitter.com/#!/wrowe/statuses/32125486473678849 https://twitter.com/#!/wrowe/statuses/32141366133788672 https://twitter.com/#!/wrowe/statuses/32141531892682752 btw. Tom Donovan is part of both of the ASF ( http://people.apache.org/list_D.html) and the apacheloung ( http://www.apachelounge.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=233) so I think that it is as close to the official builds as you can get. it would be a good thing if the soon coming up apache 2.4 would come with a greater variety of windows builds, but it seems that it will skip VC9(if Rowe won't drop the windows builds entirely), so I think the official windows build would be incompatible with the php project on the short/mid term. :( fortunately I'm fine with the apachelounge builds. Tyrael
