[wp-hackers] WordPress self install on Windows?

[Danny G Smith]

Thanks, all, that gives me the confidence to try it, at least.  I think I will stick to a proven stack such as apache mysql and php, I will probably go with Zend Server as I am already using Zend Community Server under linux, and find it a good solution.

I will miss bash, grep, vi, etc, though....

thanks,

Danny G. Smith



On Nov 13, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Nacin wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Danny G Smith <dgs at riskiii.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am curious, what is the ratio of core contributors that develop for
>> windows?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Brian Layman <bulk at thecodecave.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are contributors who run on IIS as tickets come through and get
>> fixed, but it is a vast minority. Perhaps someone else can give you a better
>> number...
> 
> 
> Only a few regular core contributors develop on Windows (ask me to name one,
> though, and I'll likely draw a blank). Only one committer does, though two
> of us also used to. As far as I know, everyone uses/used Apache as their
> primary web server, typically XAMPP. Of course, some of us also test on IIS.
> 
> WordPress supports IIS7 out of the box, including URL rewriting / pretty
> permalinks. Microsoft expends quite a bit of effort to make sure WordPress
> continues to runs well on IIS7.x. They even have this site,
> http://wordpress.visitmix.com/, which has on it an SQL Server database layer
> if you're so inclined. And whenever we have an IIS issue we can safely lean
> on ruslany, who handles FastCGI and PHP support for Microsoft's IIS team and
> is a core contributor.
> 
> So, yes, WordPress will work on IIS7, quite well in fact.
> 
> Nacin
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