Get your Wordpress blogging on Windows Server 2008 Style
It used to be that if you wanted to run Wordpress, you wanted a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Server. You could get it working on Internet Information Server but it wasn’t the best and there were definitely issues to be dealt with.
Trouble yourself no more! Zend Technologies, and the “Zend Platform” have taken the PHP core and added performance and stability. The Zend Core commercially supported flavor of PHP has now been certified to run on Windows Server 2008.
This should be of specific interest to many I have seen recently asking about running Wordpress on Windows.
From itnews.com:
For example, Zend worked with Microsoft’s FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make FastCGI set up and run PHP applications efficiently. The IIS Web server is now built into Windows 2008, and the two companies made certain the PHP interface to FastCGI worked smoothly, Gutmans said in an interview.
Zend’s PHP now supports CardSpace, Microsoft’s identity management system, so users of PHP applications may gain online services after being authenticated and awarded the proper privilege level. The Windows 2008 certification also means Windows as well as Linux servers can be expected to host such PHP applications as the Mambo Web site content management system or the WordPress blog publishing system, Gutmans said.
Previously, PHP “didn’t run as well as it should on Windows,” said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations. When they deployed their Windows-based applications to production, their performance was disappointing and they tended to develop on Windows and deploy under Unix or Linux. Now the three platforms should be available on a more equal footing, he said.
The two companies have started work on a SQL Server driver for Zend Core that will make interfacing PHP Web applications to SQL Server a more straightforward task, Gutmans said.
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