I'm having a NT webserver and thinking of installing php/mysql in that machine, is that possible? DO I need to get any third-party installation software?

You would need to get PHP and MySQL from there respective sites :D

I think it would be possible!

Yes, it is possible but not ideal. I haven't researched this in a while, but last I heard PHP runs under NT as cgi and not as a loadable object (.DLL), therefore doesn't offer the great performance you'd come to expect from it. MySQL/NT is offered for free as a beta version containing debug code -- again not ideal. A clean, supported version of MySQL/NT needs to be purchased, and it isn't cheap.

I have been using PHP/MySQL on an NT server (with Apache for NT) for about 9 months on one of my development servers and it's been fine but not something I'd use commercially. I've seen little or no discrepancies between PHP/MySQL on NT vs. Linux. The installation procedure is just about identical.

Go to the respective Web sites for more info: http://www.php.org and http://www.mysql.com.

Ed

I believe the NT version of mySQL is free and can be downloaded from their website.

PHP can also be used in NT. Just setup a link of .php to c:\php4\php.exe in IIS. In PHP4 there is also an ISAPI plug-in, which is faster than cgi method and could probably rival ASP, well maybe not. Since there is not much demand for this product (nt version), and since it's free it is unlikely that you are going to get a solid, stable version for NT.

There great for testing on your desktop, but I wouldn't recommend deploying them on NT servers. Just switch to Linux instead.

Sysadmin, any NT/Windows version of MySQL, outside of the betas, carry's a hefty liscensing charge. Its free for like 30 days after that you must purchase a liscense for it.

That's right, Daniel. If you look at the download page for the free vesion of MySQL/NT at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/os-nt.html you'll notice the .DLL is more than 3 years old.

Ed

Whats the bottom line of this discusion?? Never use NT or you will have to pay HUGE licensing charges!!

use open source linux and pay for nothing! :D

Kunal, I'd love to stick with *nix only.... If I didn't have to do some ASP work sometime :rolleyes:

I can't just switch to unix box because my NT webserver running all our web application. The reason I want to use php/mysql is because I found one good script that will be very useful to my company, it is not for commercial use.

From all the reply, I think installing php/mysql in NT is not a hard to do.

thanks

Noone can have everything now can they? :) You have to sacrifice something to gain somethinge else!! Well ChilliSoft should become stable soon. ;)

akula, if it's not for commercial use then by all means go ahead and install PHP/MySQL. I didn't mean to scare you off -- I just wanted to point out that on NT it's not ideal from a performance standpoint.

Ed