[mapguide-internals] Re: 32 bit installer on build machine

[Zac Spitzer]

One other option would be nice in the installer is to be able to
set the php.ini display_errors=(on|off) to start with..

I think this would really help people starting out, as the old
silent failure with php is really confusing for a lot of people
as can be seen on the mailing list

thoughts?



On 26 March 2010 13:00, Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com> wrote:
> ISAPI support has been dropped from PHP as of 5.3.  The code's apparently
> still there (as per Bruce), but all reference to it is gone from the PHP
> docs and FastCGI is now the only supported SAPI for PHP under IIS.
>
> We moved away from FastCGI because of stability problems, and also because
> it looked like it was dead in the water.  In the meantime, MS and PHP
> (Zend?) got together and decided that FastCGI was the best way of making PHP
> work under Windows. MS updated FastCGI for Windows for IIS 5.1 and 6, and
> built it into IIS7: http://www.iis.net/expand/FastCGI
>
> I'm still convinced that a dedicated module is the best bet for MapGuide
> core, but it seems that going back to FastCGI for PHP is necessary post-MG
> 2.2.  We may eventually have to revisit this for the MapAgent as well
> when/if MS drops ISAPI support in favour of new native IIS7 modules (
> http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/169/develop-a-native-cc-module-for-iis-7/)
>
> Jason
>
> On 25 March 2010 18:45, Jackie Ng wrote:
>
>>
>> Going back to FastCGI? Is it actually usable now unlike 3 years ago?
>>
>> - Jackie
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