going from linux to windows, need advice

[jorley]

Hi guys,

 

    Weird question but I have to ask. So i have been programming with PHP on a Linux server for a long time now and recently took a position at a company that is using a windows server. I have never used windows at all as far as servers go. I am going to be developing a software for a customer service call center. A couple questions come to mind.

 

1. what are the biggest differences between the two servers.

 

2. is it the same as using linux as far as FTPin the files and testing

 

3. where this is a white labeled product I am creating for call centers should I assume that the servers are going to be in house and not reachable by a domain name

 

 

These questions are mainly because I am going from developing large scale social networks and ecommerce systems to developing in a different environment that is not even technically on the internet.

[trq]

I went through this same process about 12 months ago. Nothing too daunting. There are obvious differences between Linux & windows though my biggest hurdles (development wise) was that there is no native url re-write engine for IIS6 or below. IIS7 does have this functionality, but we ended up using a re-write asapi filter (not free). I assume you will be using IIS, Apache however runs fine on windows machines.

 

Another thing I really miss on windows are links.

 

As for your questions:

 

2) FTP is a protocol. So yeah, its the same cross-platform. I haven't used ftp on Windows or Linux for years however as I nromally have either direct or indirect (shell) access to any servers I work on.

 

3) I would assume nothing. But you would get more information about this from your employer surely.