Drupal and Windows?! Yes

Drupal and Windows?! Juozas „Joe“ Kaziukėnashttp://juokaz.com / @juokaz / juozas@juokaz.com

Before we start

My name is Joe

Who is this guy?• Juozas Kaziukėnas• People prefer to call me Joe• Lives in Edinburgh, UK• Runs Web Species Ltd. (still can write code)• Speaker in PHP conferences all over the world• Open source developer (Zend Framework, Doctrine etc.)• More info http://juokaz.com and @juokaz

* I do not work for Microsoft

http://webspecies.co.uk

Anyone runningDrupal on Windows servers?

PHP and Windows

Why?• PHP is the most popular language , 75% of all websites o http://bit.ly/bmCvms• Enterprise/business environments o Windows are very popular there o Clients for PHP shops• Integration with Windows applications and tools o SQL Server etc.• Microsoft’s wish

Migration to Windows

Migration to Windows• And noone asks for it• Changing working systems is stupid and prone to errors• Downtime• Important: o Using in existing Windows systems o Maybe for new projects

It’s good to know that “it works”

History

History •PHP and Windows = 2006 •FastCGI2007 •PHP 5.3 and windows.php.net2008 •PHP 5.3 release2009 •WinCache 1.0 •FastCGI 1.52010 •WinCache 1.1 •Drupal 72011

Drupal

A lot of Drupal clients want Windows as a server At least in United Kingdom

Drupal 7

Drupal 7• Support for SQL Server o 2005 and 2008• Runs on IIS web server out of the box• Runs on Azure o Media storage backend• Microsoft plugins: o Bing maps o LiveID o Odata o Silverlight pivot viewer

http://microsoft.com/web/drupal

PHP and Microsoft

Tools andtechnologies

WebDeploy• Deploy tool• Allows migrating IIS 6 -> IIS 7• Configuration, source code, DB’s, DLL’s etc.• Dependencies• Servers synchronization• No admin permissions are required

Web Platform installer• Using WebDeploy• Web server setup with one click o IIS, PHP, Microsoft SQL Server, .Net etc.• Web App Gallery o Drupal, Wordpress etc.

Web App gallery

IIS tools• PHP Manager for IIS• URL Rewrite• Logging• Database manager• Cache warm up• SEO toolkit• Etc.

WinCache• APC replacement for Windows• Same API as APC• Performance gain for free• Somewhat integrated into Drupal

Performance

Performance• Horrendously slow before• Comparable today• IIS tests o http://www.slideshare.net/ruslany/php-performance-on-windows• Apache vs IIS o http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2009/11/19/php-on-windows-the- wincache-1-0-benchmark/

Apache vs IIS

Questions?

Thanks!• Slides will be available online soon• Local Microsoft contanct: o Tiago Andrade e Silva - tiagoand@microsoft.com• Contact me on: o http://juokaz.com o juozas@juokaz.com o Twitter: @juokaz

Drupal and Windows?! Yes

by Juozas Kaziukenas on Mar 26, 2011

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