What are the technical differences between the Thread Safe and Non Thread safe PHP Windows Installation Packages?

Question

I\'m currently about to install PHP for an Apache/Windows-based development environment, but it seems I\'m about to fall at the first hurdle: Choosing the right package to insta

Answer 1

Personally, I use a virtualised LAMP server. Every hosting service I use is on some flavour of Linux, and there are too many differences between WAMP and LAMP. Then I just use the default tasksel LAMP server for that version of Linux.

My actual setup right now is with VMWare (Fusion on Mac, Player on Windows). I have 3 VMs - one for PHP5.3 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and another for PHP 5.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (One of the hosts I use is on RedHat, which currently supports only PHP 5.1). I have a third VM for RubyOnRails dev.

In other words, I try to get my development environment as close to my production environment as possible. So work out what version of Apache and PHP is on your host, and use that as your guide.