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[Kristina Anderson]

Hi Mike,

To be honest I'm not even sure what version it was.  There was a 
php.ini file for the entire PHP installation, and then we needed a 
second php.ini file for our particular domain app, which they had first 
told us to place in the root and then changed their mind and said place 
in the cgi-bin folder.  I have a feeling that some or all of the below 
issues could have been due to a poor understanding on the part of sys 
admins as to the proper configuration of the environment.

The sys admin stuff is definitely not my strength...I was pretty 
proficient in IIS back in the day but this stuff is totally outside my 
experience.  So I just felt, let's switch back to something that I know 
works.

-- Kristina  

> Hello Kristina,
> 
> Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 4:04:40 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > Hi Anthony -- well, we've definitely made the decision to switch 
from 
> > WAMP to LAMP.  There are definitely plusses and minuses on each 
side, 
> > for sure.  Thank heavens, since this is an externally hosted site, 
I 
> > don't need to be a Linux genius (now THAT would be an issue)!  All 
of 
> > my previous experience developing PHP apps was with LAMP.  So this 
has
> > been a learning experience for me.
> 
> > The issues I found with WAMP are:
> 
> > -- poor understanding on the part of sys admins of where the 
modified 
> > php.ini file should live, and why, and how it affects various 
functions
> > of PHP.  Consequently a huge testing cycle and anxiety about future 
> > issues that might arise with new code.
> 
> > -- Non existent debug messages (i.e. blank white screens rather 
than 
> > semi helpful line number messages)...although that could have been 
a 
> > setting that we neglected to unearth & configure.
> 
> > -- Completely erratic performance with the mail() function and 
since 
> > this is a critical part of our app (13 different emails going out 
> > either after site visits or at various timed intervals to hopefully 
a 
> > ton of people who register), this was a huge concern for me; and
> 
> > -- weird issues with the $_FILES array behavior and more fun trying 
to
> > get php.ini to work right for that.
> 
> > So maybe I'm just a wimp but back to LAMP I go.  I figure I've got 
> > enough headaches just trying to roll out the app and make sure it's 
> > working right without all of the above.
> 
> > --Kristina
> 
> 
> >> LAMP environments, you're not missing much... :)
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Anthony Wlodarski
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> 
> Are you / were you using WAMP5? some other WAMP package?
> 
> I have been running WAMP5 on my XP Windows box for a long time and the
> differences are not that great between it and my LAMP Hosting site (at
> least for my development work, I do development stuff on XP, transfer
> it to my Linux server and it just works, maybe other stuff that I 
don't care
> about is different?), though the php.ini in WAMP5 is located in the
> Apache/bin folder as are many of the PHP dlls ( I has a huge RTFM
> issue with that one when I first installed it) folder which is 
significantly
> different from other WAMP packages I have run.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  mikesz                            mailto:mikesz at qualityadvantages.com
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