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I’ve searched the forums for more info on this, so forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere.

I’m about to begin designing and building multiple sites for a new client that already has a local hosting service that they’re happy with. The problem is that this hosting provider is exclusively Windows-based, so no Apache.

However, the owner of the hosting company is a nice guy, and he’s even installed PHP/MySQL just for me on another small project with Textpattern.

So, my question is, will everything be alright if I choose to run EE/MSM on IIS/PHP/MySQL? What problems or hiccups can I expect to run into? I’m scared to death that this will be a nightmare…

Thanks,
Addison

IIS certainly isn’t an optimized platform for running PHP applications, but if the server administrators are aware of the issues, you should still have a good experience.  I can think of three noteworthy things, that you will:

a) have to use forced query strings (leaving the ? in the URL)
b) need to make sure directory and file permissions are set properly so that PHP can read, write, and modify files that it needs to (with ExpressionEngine this means your config.php file, cache folder, file upload folders, etc.) which is trickier on Windows than on *nix
c) make sure MySQL is not running in “strict” mode which is the default for some reason on the Windows installer

Thanks, Derek—that’s the kind of info I was looking for.