Last week I received the details for our competition server for the WinPHP Callenge (see: http://www.eurowinphp.com/).
The server is running Windows 2008 R2, which is a change for me since over the past years I have mostly been developing on Linux/Apache. The first challenge was to install IIS which wasn’t included in the initial setup. I briefly considered using Apache, but to make it a real challenge it should be IIS this time.
At the moment I’m reading up on what difference between Apache and IIS are important to my application. For now the main issue seems to be that I need an alternative for .htaccess and especially the RewriteEngine. IIS uses an xml files called Web.config to set application specific settings.
I found these posts:http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/ and http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/470/import-apache-modrewrite-rules/ which seem to cover most of what I need.
Now it’s time to install PHP, configure a website and upload some code to run tests.