Posted by Mike Willbanks on 05/24/05 18:26

Abby,
> 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.

First I would like to say that most of the time PHP applications will
move over pretty quickly. Sometimes when switching platforms, you may
experience problems because sometimes there are specific items that use
linux commands via exec.

Also you may want to note what extensions you are currently using and
what you need to make sure that the windows server has it. On another
note PHP sometimes does not work very well on windows (it can be a pain
to setup and stabilize). If the host is doing that for you then you
need not to worry about that.

I would say to stick with a LAMP box instead of a WIMP or WAMP box. But
that is preference.

Mike

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