Is it possible to run Ezpublish 4 on Windows Vista?

Is it possible to run Ezpublish 4 on Windows Vista?

Thursday 02 April 2009 2:05:03 pm - 5 replies

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Łukasz Serwatka

Friday 03 April 2009 12:11:54 am

Hi,

Apache2 is the only solution for Vista AFAIK. It is working quite well, you can run latest eZ Publish version on it without problems.

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Fátima Chapri

Saturday 04 April 2009 1:35:19 pm

Hi Łukasz,

Thanks a Lot for your answer.

You just saved my day.

What I don't understand is why it is not specified on the documentation pages. I found the following recommendation there: "On Windows, it is recommended to use the latest version of the 1.3 branch. (Apache 2.x for Windows is not supported since it only exists in "threaded" mode.)". (http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_0/installation/normal_installation/requirements_for_doing_a_normal_installation)

Anyway, I just want to be shore about one think: Can I use any Apache 2.x version for the propose I want to or there are any restrictions?

André R.

Sunday 05 April 2009 1:03:29 am

Recommendations are for prod setup, for development there is no problem.

Using Vista x64 w/ wampserver 2 (Apache 2.x + php 5.2.x) here myself.
Only problems I have is with APC and Xdebug, they make the apache setup unstable so I don't use them atm. And the fact that it is 4 times slower then same computer with Linux, but I can live with that if I manage to find a solution to the APC issue soon...

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Fátima Chapri

Sunday 05 April 2009 5:10:53 am

Ok. Thank you all for your help.

I would like to leave here my opinion: I think that it should be specified in the documentation pages what other options we have to install and run ezPublish. As I could see, there's no information that the doc recommendations are for prod setup and not for development.
This could facilitate a bit some other people.

Łukasz Serwatka

Sunday 05 April 2009 12:56:43 pm

Good suggestion. We will take in to account.

As Andre wrote, the biggest issue while developing with eZ Publish on Windows Vista I found is stability issue when it comes to the Xdebug and APC support and for sure this will not change in near future, as the way how Apache and PHP are compiled for windows had to change.

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