[Tfug] Running PHP on a Windows Server

[Ammon]

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keith smith wrote:
> I am looking for information on running PHP on a Windows Server.  I
> have found limited information.  What I am most interested in is
> under what circumstances I would need to run in safe mode.

PHP runs fine under windows. Apache actually runs quite well under windows.

> According to the PHP site, safe mode has been removed in PHP 6.0.
> This alludes to Windows now being secure to run PHP.  Is that true?

"Safe mode" was a misnomer.

This is part of the reason they're removing it - because people assumed
it implied a degree of security that it did not.

Windows does not have the exact same sort of process accounting that a
Unix system would. NTFS doesn't have the same sort of file permission
flags that Unix filesystems do, etc...

Other than those two gotchas - which will make some functions behave
differently than they would on Linux/BSD/etc... - PHP running on a
Windows server is fine. Thes differences in behaviors are generally well
documented.

All you probably need is the open_basedir php.ini setting, this
effectively chroots php to the approved portions of the filesystem.

Ammon
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