Posted by Abby on 05/24/05 18:00

I have an application that is written in php/mysql on a Linux platform and
need to transfer hosts. This is a session based application and I don't
know a lot about php/Linux/mysql, but can get by. I know windows/asp, etc.
much more extensively. So, can I just move the whole thing over to a
Windows server, upload the mysql backup database and change the settings for
the db connection and have it work? Is there anything that would prevent
this from transitioning smoothly? If so, if I stayed with a Linux platform,
would the transition be this easy or would I have coding changes with this
as well.

I need to tell the new host which platform today and I would rather use
windows, but if there are going to be too many coding changes on Windows,
then I'll leave it on Linux, but if there is just as much work on Linux,
then I prefer to stick with Windows.

Thanks!

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