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Hi, I’m fairly new to the forums and I’m looking forward to purchasing the full version of EE. I’ve played with the core version and I’m hooked. So now what?

Well…I’ve read through some of the posts and see that some people are having a hard time with EE running on a Windows server. Is there a comparison chart or some documentation that explains the major differences/complications running EE on Windows vs. Linux?

What are most people using?

Thank you!

windows servers do not run PHP as a native application rather as an ASAPI module. A windows based machine is really happier with ASP and although PHP (and MySQL) will run some calls may not function the same as they would on a unix based server.

Having had both, and suffered a blue screen of death killing all my client sites on the windows one without doubt a unix server is better, stronger, more reliable and just about any other superlative you can throw at it. Although more complex to administer at admin levels, if just hosting, control panels take away the need to get your hands dirty for the most part with command lines or SSH access.

That depends on the reason you are asking.

If you are a Windows user and you want to setup EE on your local machine then using WAMP and running EE on your Windows machine is the easiest.

If you are shopping for a hosting provider then look for Linux.  If you follow the instructions for installation then this choice should largely be invisible for you.

Personally, I have a Vista machine and I run JeOS (stripped down Ubuntu) on Parallels.

I would wager that running just about anything is better on Linux 😛

Seriously, I’ve never had great luck running web applications on windows servers. We’ve dealt with a few clients that had windows servers and PHP never worked quite as well. Libraries were a pain to install, permissions were an issue. Just generally not fun.

I can tell you that I installed XAMPP for XP and it runs ExpressionEngine fine, though I got some illegal function call warnings from MySQLDumper (a database backup program), indicating the mysql isn’t the full-flavored one you find in Unix installs. Comes with Linux, mysql, php, filezilla and perl all ready-to-go.

You can install an actual Ubuntu partitionless—partition (uses a file as a partition) using Wubi, though I’ve only just begun to try to get that working (attempts at setting it up for dual monitors/two vid cards crashes very badly).

Terry

On the same subject, I have purchased EE & started developing my EE site on WAMP after playing around with the free core version for a week or so.  I am planning on hosting the application on LAMP…my question is, do I have to buy or download another EE version for linux?  I presume that I only have to deploy the source. 

Thanks!

do I have to buy or download another EE version for linux?  I presume that I only have to deploy the source. 

Thanks!

EE is a huge bunch of optimized php scripts, so it will run with most php and mysql environments.

Terry

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