Hello all,
I'm building a my first site with Open Atrium for a project at work. I am required to use a virtual Window server (Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2).
On the development side, I have downloaded WampServer (wampserver.com) on my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit PC, and that seems to work just fine. However, I see plenty of warnings in various discussion groups NOT to use WampServer and similar stacks on production machines, presumably due to the way they are configured for ease of development and not so much for security, performance, etc.
Can someone steer me toward a good resource for building a production-quality WAMP server?
Or -- might it be possible to tweak a handful of WampServer's settings to bring it up to snuff?
Thanks from this newbie.
-Michael
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Right. . . .
I have also been using WAMPSERVER64 as a FOSS solution for localdev. Yeah, I wish I knew of a one-stop-solution for tweaking those settings.
Isn't the main gripe about security in a production environment that the stock MySQL access it provides is not necessarily set up? You know, use passwords where there the default is none, plus use SSL, protect the document root, etc.
Have you also looked at Zend CE as an alternative? It's free but not open source, and supposedly offers better performance.
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/
http://blog.digitalstruct.com/2009/03/17/why-utilize-zend-server-communi...
There is also http://www.uniformserver.com/ and they do tout "Comprehensive Security" for production use. That may be of interest, short of going to a full-blown VM instance of a LAMP stack in Ubuntu.