maat Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Hello, This is a pretty basic question, I just want to know which would work better as I am about to install PHP and MySQL on my personal computer for web design applications. I know that Apache and PHP work very well together, however, I would think that on the other hand, IIS would work very well with Windows Vista and Microsoft Expression (my web design program). So the question is... should I install Apache or IIS? I have done several searches and I cannot find any answers to this. I know that there probably aren't any definitive answers, but I would appreciate any opinions on the matter or anything you can offer. Kindest regards, Maat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 As far as speed benchmarks go, I'm not sure which would be faster. If I had to guess, I would say Apache with PHP as a module would be faster. (With PHP through FastCGI, there's essentially an extra step.) You're likely to get biased answers here though since most people here (like me) prefer Apache. I briefly used IIS with PHP (and still have it installed just the service disabled), but when it comes down to it, I find Apache easier to do more stuff with. (mod_rewrite, mod_svn [or what ever the SVN thing is called] so on....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maat Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thanks for your input, especially since you've had experience with both. Since you haven't had any major issues with either one, I'm happy to hear, I probably will go with Apache (I'm leaning that way). Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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