Windows Loves Drupal

Windows Loves Drupal

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  Windows Drupal Alessandro Pilotti @alexpilotti MVP ASP .NET / IIS Windows Azure Insider MCSD, MCAD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT Red Hat Certified Engineer
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  Some Facts Aboutthe 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
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  Windows and IIS ProductName OS Version IIS Release Windows XP 5.1 5.1 08/01 Windows Server 2003 5.2 6.0 03/03 Windows 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 07/09 Windows Server 2008 6.1 7.5 07/09 R2 Windows 8 6.2 8.0 ? Windows Server 2012 6.2 8.0 ?
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  IIS 6 —  Kernellevel 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
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  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
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  Security —  Windows isa 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)
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  Comparing PHP Stacks — Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP —  Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP —  Windows + IIS + MySQL + PHP —  Windows + IIS + MS SQL Server + PHP
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  MySQL and MicrosoftSQL 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
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  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
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  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
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  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)!
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  CPU Throttling —  CPUresource 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
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  Windows Server 2012 CPU Throttling
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  WebPI —  Microsoft WebPlatform 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!
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  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
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  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
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  Drush 5.x —  Acommand 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
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  Drush aliases —  Createa 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' );
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  Server Farm —  IISextensions: —  Application request Routing (ARR) —  Web Farm Framework (WFF) —  You can enable independently —  Load balancing and caching —  Server farm provisioning —  Platform / applications
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  WebDeploy —  Web ApplicationPackaging —  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
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  —  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/
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  Resources http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-windows http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/PHP-at-Scale-on-the-Microsoft- Platform Free 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