Posted by Rik on 08/04/07 20:20

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:44:51 +0200, <sgottenyc@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> If you could assist me with the following situation, I would be very
> grateful.
> In my current position, we have to use a non-traditional server setup
> to serve PHP-generated web pages.
> Instead of the classic web server->database server setup, what they
> have at my workplace instead is:
> Apache on a frontend server -> needing to connect to IIS on a backend
> server -> needing to connect to SQL Server on the same backend
> server.

> My questions:
> 1) Is this sort of setup workable? Has anyone successfully used a
> similar setup to this in the past?
> 2) If so, how to do it? Can Apache be instructed to switch over
> processing of PHP pages to the IIS on the other server via some sort
> of Apache command? Is it instead some sort of programming issue that
> I can fix by tweaking my code?

Seems like unnecessary complication... If apache get's everything from
IIS, why not simply set up a proxy, and let IIS serve everything if that's
the main server....

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Rik Wasmus

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