Windows和IIS上的PHP 5和Zend MVC

Question

Are there any major issues to be aware of running a PHP 5 / Zend MVC production application on Windows? The particular application is Magento, an ecommerce system, and the client is really not interested in having a Linux box in their datacenter. Has anyone had luck getting PHP 5 and Zend MVC working correctly on IIS?

Answer 1

Yes, it works. Microsoft and Zend are working together to get PHP running as it runs on linux. Zend even has a certified version of their core package (includes php, mysql and some control panel) for Windows and iis. Also Zend Framework is supposed to be truly platform independend.

Another option instead is to use Apache on Windows, but IIS is faster for static page views and also has some other interesting options. .htaccess files are not supported, so for rewriting you need to rely on other IIS components.