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elaverick
Joined: 08 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Tue 09 Jan '07 0:12 Post subject: Apache on Windows 2003 Web Edition |
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I'm about to purchase the Microsoft Action pack and I've already got roles marked out for the Windows SBS and Windows 2003 servers this does however leave a copy of the Windows 2003 Web Edition kicking about.
I'd quite like to use this as a platform for my web server, however I'm really not keen on IIS and would much rather use Apache 2. The underlying system restrictions present in the Web Edition aren't too much of a problem (I have no need for more than 2GB of memory and I'd rather use MySQL over SQL Server anyway) however I was wondering if there were any gotchas I should look out for with regards to using Apache on something so strongly designed around IIS.
Has anyone tried this before? Do you have any tips or suggestions that might help me along the way?
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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Hello E.Laverick,
I'm running Apache 2.2.3 on Standart Edtion. Apache runs well. By any unkown issue sometimes I can't restart apache and have to stop and start it. This phenomenon I saw only on the german edtion. 
If you want to run apache on windows in the internet you should use a router or something like that to block all ports but 80. |
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Millennium
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Posts: 179
Location: Leiderdorp, NL, EU
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I'm running Apacha 2.2.3 on Windows Server 2003 WEB edition.
And everything runs fine. Except the crashes of Apache Child threats. But I guess It has something to do with the one of the many PHP extensions I'm running |
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Steffen
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Joined: 15 Oct 2005
Posts: 3092
Location: Hilversum, NL, EU
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When PHP is crashing Apache then it is advised to use mod_fcgid (Fastcgi). PHP is then not pulling Apache down.
Running as Fastcgi memory usage of Apache is far less en the Speed is on par when running as module. There are advantages to running PHP with FCGI. Separating the PHP code from the web server removes 'bloat' from the main server, and improves the performance of non-PHP requests. Secondly, having one permanent PHP process as opposed to one per apache process means that shared resources like persistent MySQL connections are used more efficiently. And maybe even more important is stability, since I run FCGI my server never crashed caused by php (extension) errors.
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funkyspider
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 16
Location: Oldham, UK
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Can you give me a bit more info on this fastcgi
I work on a site which has Windows 2003, apache 2.2 and php 5.2 and randomly get apache crashes caused by php5ts.dll
There doesn't seem to be a definitive solution for this problem other than rolling back to old versions of apache and php, and that's not 100% successful or something I really want to do.
I need to make this site reliable but i'm not really a server person, but this sounds like it could help......... would it? Or would it just be another way to have a unreliable site if php and apache is the main issue? |
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