Posted by "Mark Rees" on 08/24/05 17:01

> >> I'm betting you'll have the SAME ISSUE, and that the problem has
> >> NOTHING to do with PHP whatsoever.
> >
> > And you'd win that bet. I thought that would be the proof I'd need to
> > show that it wasn't PHP, but management has some notion that PHP might
> > have somehow tainted IIS.
>
> Gotta love a management group that doesn't listen to their IT guys and
> think they know the answer to all the IT problems even though they have
> no clue about IT. I've been there done that and guess what? I'm still
> doing it to this day. I think it's one of those never ending things.
> What you should do is configure IIS to parse PHP with .asp extensions
> and just tell them that it's ASP. Now that would be funny!
>
> >> PHP works fine with IIS and Windows.
> >
> > I've tried to tell the that there are Fortune 500 companies running
> > PHP on Windows and IIS (there are, right?).
>
> Target, Tickmaster, Yahoo, Amazon, and the list goes on and on.

Not too sure about this:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=amazon.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=ticketmaster.com

etc
PHP, possibly, but not on IIS and Windows.


>
>
> Or you could leave IIS on the Windows machine and install Apache on the
> same Windows box and run PHP using Apache on Windows and see if that
> solves your problem. Then of course don't tell management that you are
> running Apache! ;-)


Class idea! I think you should do this!

Good luck

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