[Web4lib] using joomla on a Windows vs. linux server

[Walker, David]

If I'm not mistaken, Joomla is written in PHP and uses MySQL.  Janice, if you install Apache on your Windows box, then you've got an environment that is 99.9% the same as every other Joomla implementation.
 
--Dave
 
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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Francis Kayiwa
Sent: Tue 11/27/2007 6:28 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] using joomla on a Windows vs. linux server




On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Masud-Paul, Janice wrote:

> Good morning.
>
>
>
> We are considering using Joomla as a content management system but 
> most
> of our experience is with Windows OS on our servers.  Did any of you
> install Joomla on a Windows server?  Did you run into any problems?  
> Are
> there advantages to installing the software on a Linux box?

I've never installed/used Joomla but from the dev. pages it seems like 
the only advantage to installing Joomla on Linux is because this is 
their recommendation (warning on page 3 below).

http://downloads.joomlacode.org/docmanfileversion/1/7/4/17471/1.5_Installation_Manual_version_0.5.pdf

This has support implications. While you can probably get away with 
using Windows, if anything breaks you won't have too many developers 
taking their time to help you fix the problems you encounter.

So if you have staff that are available to support the Windows 
Operating System + Staff who will be able to fix whatever problems you 
encounter then I would say go for it. Otherwise I would stick with 
what "The Manual" tells you.

regards,
./fxk

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