Re: Differences between PHP on LAMP and PHP on Windows Servers

[Matijn Woudt <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 20:54 +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote:
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> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Gates, Jeff <GatesJ@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what differences I might encounter by working with PHP on a Unix server verses working with PHP on a Windows server. We use Windows production servers here but many of us would like to get more LAMP environments.
> >
> > So, I'm wondering if I can use the hive mind here to get a sense of the pros and cons of each platform.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Apart from all other suggestions, one of the most common errors are
> because of different php.ini settings. If you can keep those settings
> (mostly) equal, there will not be that many errors.
>
> - Matijn
>
>
>
> I would say that's not limited to the distinction between Windows and
> Linux but any server. I've seen what appears to be an identical setup (same
> version of PHP, MySQL, etc) fail only because of a small setting in the
> php.ini file, just because the default was slightly different on the second
> system; both were running Linux.
>
>
Yes, ofcourse, that comment was meant for any two systems.

- Matijn