Windows Loves Drupal

Windows Drupal Alessandro Pilotti @alexpilotti MVP ASP .NET / IIS Windows Azure InsiderMCSD, MCAD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT Red Hat Certified Engineer

Some Facts About the Windows OS  Based on Windows NT, released in July 1993  Hardware independent OS  POSIX subsystem  Provides excellent command line tools   PowerShell  Excellent security model  Server Core option for minimal GUI and footprint

Windows and IISProduct Name OS Version IIS ReleaseWindows XP 5.1 5.1 08/01Windows Server 2003 5.2 6.0 03/03Windows Vista 6.0 (Build 7.0 01/07 6000)Windows Server 2008 6.0 (Build 7.0 03/08 6001)Windows 7 6.1 7.5 07/09Windows Server 2008 6.1 7.5 07/09R2Windows 8 6.2 8.0 ?Windows Server 2012 6.2 8.0 ?

IIS 6  Kernel level component (http.sys) listens to HTTP requests   HUGE performance improvement over IIS 5  All user code runs in separate processes   Worker Process (w3wp.exe)   Crashes in worker processes don’t affect the stability of the service  Web gardens   Multiple WP per single web applications  Configuration stored in a XML metabase   MetaBase.Xml   MBSchema.Xml

IIS 7.x / 8.0  Complete redesign over IIS 6.0  Modular design  http.sys is still part of the architecture  Improved remote administration and delegation  Enhanced command line and scripting tools   Including PowerShell cmdlets  Flexible model not limited to HTTP  Tight integration with WCF

Security  Windows is a very secure OS!   Running Internet Explorer as administrator and getting malware does not mean that the system is flawed   RunAs permits to execute processes as different users  Windows Server 2008 introduced some unique security features  Windows Firewall  Since Windows Server 2008:   Address space layout randomization (ASLR)   Network Access Protection (NAP)

Comparing PHP Stacks  Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP  Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP  Windows + IIS + MySQL + PHP  Windows + IIS + MS SQL Server + PHP

Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP  Pros   Most known and deployed stack in OSS world   Linux is a highly configurable operating system   Most Linux distributions can easily be configured for Apache, MySQL and PHP (yum / apt-get / etc)   Apache is a highly modular and scalable web server   Lots of documentation available   Tightly integrated update process (yum / apt-get)  Cons   Lack of simple configuration tools   Configuration requires a wide knowledge   Deployment differences between distributions

Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP  Pros   Most of the components are shared with the LAMP stack   Suitable for solutions that require integration with both Apache modules (e.g. mod_rewrite) and Windows   Until FastCGI for IIS showed up, undoubtfully the best PHP stack on Windows   Tools like XAMPP provide an easy deployment option   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs  Cons   Performance   Limited documentation and examples   Limited integration in the Windows ecosystem   Heterogeneous scenario for security updates

Windows + IIS + MySQL + PHP  Pros   Performance (FastCGI and WinCache)   Tightly integrated in the IIS 7.x ecosystem   Easy to configure an deploy via WebPI   Easy to manage via IIS Manager   Easy to script via WebDeploy and Powershell  Cons   Web apps requiring integration with Apache modules need to be reviewed

MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server  Using PHP Data Objects PDO eases portability issues  SQL Server is a choice to evaluate in scenarios that require high availability  PHP Drivers for SQL Server 3.0 just released!  Drupal + SQL Server through Commerce Guys module

PHP on Windows  COM integration   Simplest way to access OS native 3rd party features   Marshaling performance is not brilliant (IDispatch / late binding)  .NET integration (experimental)  W32Api (experimental)   Register / Invoke API functions   Be careful with the parameters on the stack  win32service   start/stop/register/unregister services  Note: flock() has a slightly different behavior on Windows

IIS 7 Modules  Individual features used to process a request  Executed in a pipeline  Native   OS specific binaries (e.g. written in C++)   More performant  Managed   .NET assemblies, executed by the .NET CLR   More secure and manageable

Windows Server 2012 - SNI  Windows Server 2012 introduces some important features   Huge performance improvements for multi-tenant!  Server Name Indication (SNI)   Assign different X509 certificates to different host headers   Requires IE >= 7.0, Chrome >= 6.0, FF >= 2.0, SafariMobile >= 5.0   Non supported in IE on Windows XP (even on IE 9)!

CPU Throttling  CPU resource pooling is a problem in IIS 7.x   Processes exceeding their quota get killed, not throttled   Lots of errors in user applications   Not suitable for multitenant scenarios  This feature required specific kernel support

Windows Server 2012 CPU Throttling

WebPI  Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a free tool that simplifies deployment of web solutions   IIS features and extensions   WinCache, PHP Drivers for SQL Server, PHP Manager   Frameworks   PHP 5.2 / 5.3, .Net, etc   Web applications   Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, DotNetNuke, Orchard, etc   Database   MS SQL Server Express, MySQL, etc   WebMatrix   WebMatrix 2 RC available!

Drupal via WebPI  Fastest way to setup Drupal on IIS  Takes care of all the steps   Deploy of Drupal (6.x or 7.x)   Dependencies   PHP IIS: CGI, URL Rewrite, VC9, WinCache, etc ,   File permissions   Database creation

Windows Cache Extension for PHP  Open source project developed by Microsoft  IIS Specific accelerator  Requires PHP 5.2 or 5.3 x86   Non thread safe version  Provides features not available in APC and other accelerators  Current version: 1.1

Drush 5.x  A command line shell and scripting interface  Written in PHP  MS SQL Server is supported  Windows setup available on http://drush.ws/drush_windows_installer   Takes care of all required dependencies   Requires elevation

Drush aliases  Create a file aliases.drushrc.php in %UserProfile%.drush$aliases[’drupal7] = array( root => /path/to/drupal, uri => dev.mydrupalsite.com, os => Windows, remote-user => Administrator, winrs-password => Passw0rd, remote-host => DrupalWeb1);

Server Farm  IIS extensions:   Application request Routing (ARR)   Web Farm Framework (WFF)  You can enable independently   Load balancing and caching   Server farm provisioning   Platform / applications

WebDeploy  Web Application Packaging   Application or site, including DBs   Sources and destinations can be   Live servers   Zip files  Deployment   Administrative rights not required   Integration with VMSVC for remote deployment  IIS server synchronization   Entire server / site / application   Differential   Detects missing dependencies

  http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/  Software   Production licenses for self hosting: Windows Web Server 2008 R2; SQL Server 2008 Web Edition and development tools  Azure   WebsiteSpark members get up to $1400* in annual Windows Azure resources  Training   Free online training and access to the MSDN developer community and resources  Support   2 professional support incidents  Criteria   An individual or a company with < than 10 employees engaged in website design & development  Check out also BizSpark for startups   http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

Resourceshttp://groups.drupal.org/drupal-windowshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Series/PHP-at-Scale-on-the-Microsoft-PlatformFree Webcasts!   Deploying Drupal on IIS with Web Platform Installer (WebPI)   Deploying Drupal on IIS without Web Platform Installer (WebPI)   Building a Drupal Web Farm with IIS and Application Request Routing (ARR) - Part 1   Building a Drupal Web Farm with IIS - Part 2   IIS URL Rewrite for PHP and Drupal   Web Deployment Tool (WebDeploy) for Drupal sites   Optimizing Drupal and PHP sites on IIS, including Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)   Optimizing Drupal in IIS with Memcache and Solr   Configuring and managing Drupal with SQL Server   Managing Drupal on the Windows Platform with Drush

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