Best Stable Environment / Configuration

[jkpalmer52]

Great tool, this dotproject!

I'm going to use dotproject for our in-house project management. I've already installed all supporting software and have encountered many small problems and have done quite a bit of reading and have discovered that some of the dotproject errors are because I'm using the most current of PHP, MySQL, or Apache.

I'll be using a Windows XP Professional machine as our server.

Could someone identify the "best" versions to use with the minimum (or NO ) error returns.

I've installed:
PHP 4.3.9 (read that 4.3.6 is better)
Apache 2.0.52 (should I go back to the 1.3.33 version?)
MySQL 4.0 (don't want to go back any further because I may loose newer support tools?)

Regards and TIA,

-jP

[caseydk]

I believe that there are some issues with Apache 2, but I couldn't tell you what they are offhand.

It is *by far* much easier to host dP on a Linux box. I've tried to set it up a few times on Windows, but just can't seem to do it...

[jkpalmer52]

It is if you:
A-Have Linux
B-Know how to use Linux
C-Your installation allows Linux
:wink:
-jP

[Horace]

I run DP on my laptop with apache2triad, all is OK except needed to add GD support and some temporary table issues withMySQL.
I'm using an older version (1.18)
apache 2.048
php 4.3.4
mysql 4.0.15

I would agree though, that its easier to setup DP on a *nix box.
Lobby your IT manager to get 'with it'
:)

[amvf]

Does anyone know what the issues are with Apache 2.

[ajdonnison]

Basically Apache2 is not recommended by the PHP team. Their take is that Apache2 is designed for threaded environments, so on Windows it makes sense, but on Linux/UNIX/BSD systems it can have problems as not all system libraries are thread-safe. On Windows you really don't have a choice. Apache 1.3 just doesn't perform as well on Windows, so Apache2 is the only choice, but on Linux the recommendation is to use Apache 1.3.

The situation is changing, and the later versions of PHP seem to work fine on Apache2 on Linux, however the warning is still being reported by the PHP team, and so we repeat it here.

If you are using Apache2 you need to make sure PHP is at least 4.3.1.