I have spent the last two days trying to configure a new install of PHP 5.2 to work on with my new local install of Xitami web server. This was not a great experience simply because I could not get PHP to work satisfactorily with Xitami.
What’s even worse is that there is no longer good documentation on installing and configuring Xitami. In a bid to find out why this was so, plus the fact that there did not really seem to have been an updated (or new) release in a while, plus the fact that the Xitami homepage design had not changed in the last 8 years, I did some digging around and found this interesting entry in Wikipedia. In essence, the entry notes that development on Xitami ended in about 2000 thus confirming some of my suspicions about no new versions having been released in a while…. more like 7 years!
Although I think Xitami web server is still a decent web server for local machines (or laptops), I have finally come to the conclusion that its time to let Xitami rest in peace. Since I was able to get PHP configured and working great on IIS 6, I finally decided that I really don’t need Xitami and more and it would make sense that I use IIS instead. Another reason for this decision is that since I have a number of C#, ASP.Net projects planned, rather than switching back and forth between two web servers, I should stick to IIS.
Yes, I also though about installing and using the Apache web server, but I don’t really want to spend the time to download and figure it out. I think a better investment of my time would be to make sure that the rest of my scripting engines, PERL, Ruby, Python, all work with IIS.
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by andai
Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, CMS, Content Management Systems, MySQL, PHP, Web Development
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