[mapserver-users] Re: Using mapserver on windows in production

[Jeff McKenna]

On 10-10-04 5:53 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
>
> As Jeff noted, you can just use MS4W and that's surely the path of
> least resistance. Or you can download and install Apache and PHP
> separately and just use the mapserv binaries in cgi-bin from the MS4W
> distribution, and maybe the http*.conf files as guidance for your own
> setup. Having setup a lot of MapServers over the last 10 years it is
> my personal experience that Apache is easier to setup and maintain
> than IIS. I'm not sure why MS4W has the warnings that it is primarily
> for development and not hardened for production use, but I wouldn't
> let those warnings discourage you from using it on a production
> server.

Great points from Rich.  Just one additional note: recent versions of 
MS4W don't have these 'not for production' warnings.

-jeff


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