Migrating from Apache to IIS
Recently I made the switch from Apache (an open-source HTTP server) to IIS (Internet Information Services) which is Microsoft’s own web server. I know it sounds like a strange move seeing as Apache is the industry leader in terms of webservers but I did this because I figure if I’m going to be studying for my MCSE then I should at least be playing around with IIS and learning it back to front. The other reason I changed is so I could have Exchange OWA working properly.
The changeover was relitively easy. The MySQL database required no changes so most of the work came down to configuration of the multiple domains and SSL setup. In Apache when you want to run multiple websites on the same machine you use a module called virtual host. To achieve this in IIS you use a setting called host headers, both of which are very simple to set up. Other settings that needed to be configured included the default content page (this being *.php opposed to index.htm or index.asp), document_root in PHP.ini and basic security permissions.
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