Zend server installation

[Trombones13]

Is anyone here using the free Zend Server Community Edition for their XF server? If so, could you explain how to get from downloading the XF files to accessing your site? The few people I've talked to so far and I have had problems. Thanks!

 

[Trombones13]

Just a note of thanks to everyone contributing to this thread. I ran into the same problem (W2K8 R2 / 64 bit / IIS 7.5 / Zend Community Edition with PHP 5.3.3 / MySQL 5.1.51) and while I'd certainly prefer to have the forum up I at least know that my situation isn't unique and that there will be a fix in the next beta.

Yeah; I'm just glad it wasn't just my ignorance keeping me from installing it (note the word "just" was included...it was still a contributing factor lol)!

 

[Trombones13]

Dear thread viewers,

EQnoble is super awesome and helped me set it up--my forum's running now (note: not using Zend)!!

Thanks to all of you guys for helping me out too; I really appreciate it!

 

[Blandt]

Any time

We'll see you again when you want to go live

 

[Trombones13]

Any time

We'll see you again when you want to go live

LOL; no kidding. haha

Now to finish my homework so I can play with it...

 

[nestor718]

Dear thread viewers,

EQnoble is super awesome and helped me set it up--my forum's running now (note: not using Zend)!!

Thanks to all of you guys for helping me out too; I really appreciate it!

Yeah, setting up php is not that hard on IIS if you do it manually. There's a few steps but nothing hard.

So what did you do to get it to run, was it an easy fix? If so, can you post?

 

[Blandt]

Yeah, setting up php is not that hard on IIS if you do it manually. There's a few steps but nothing hard.

So what did you do to get it to run, was it an easy fix? If so, can you post?

I suppose he fixed file.php ... not sure though, but that's where the quirk was

 

[Trombones13]

Yeah, setting up php is not that hard on IIS if you do it manually. There's a few steps but nothing hard.

So what did you do to get it to run, was it an easy fix? If so, can you post?

Actually, we disabled IIS and used a server called vertrigoserv. I don't remember all of the details (and part of the installation was uninstalling our other stuff), but EQnoble mentioned (and I agreed, since I was thinking it'd be a good idea already) making an instructional video for it, so hopefully that can happen.
(yay; post #100 finally)

EDIT: No; I didn't touch any of the files, I don't think (since I extracted the files from a new download of it).

 

[Blandt]

we want IIS though no Apache allowed, especially on windowze ...

 

[Paul B]

I've just rebuilt my Win 7 machine and I decided to go with Zend CE instead of XAMPP.

I finally got it working after a bit of fiddling, it wouldn't allow me to use Port 80 for some reason so I had to use 81.
I also didn't realise I had to manually install phpMyAdmin and MySQL...

I can see the Zend test index page so I know everything's working.

I've created the DB in phpMyAdmin but I can't import the DB from my server.
The file limit is set too low at (Max: 2,048KiB)

How do I increase that/remove the restriction?

 

[nestor718]

How do I increase that/remove the restriction?

You can do that in your php.ini file. I think you can find that in the Zend control panel. Or manually edit the php.ini. Here's some tips:
http://drupal.org/node/29268

 

[Shadab]

@nestor718:

I don't think memory_limit has any effect on the file uploads in phpMyAdmin.
Most probably it's controlled by upload_max_filesize.

I have it set to 32M in /ZendServer/etc/php.ini

 

[Paul B]

Thanks guys, literally just worked it out and came here to update the thread.

I edited C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\ZendServer\etc\php.ini:

• ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
  • upload_max_filesize = 50M
• ; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
  • post_max_size = 50M

 

[Shamil]

Is there a specific reason you wanted to use Zend Server, over XAMPP or even just plain IIS?

 

[Blandt]

I've just rebuilt my Win 7 machine and I decided to go with Zend CE instead of XAMPP.

I finally got it working after a bit of fiddling, it wouldn't allow me to use Port 80 for some reason so I had to use 81.
I also didn't realise I had to manually install phpMyAdmin and MySQL...

I can see the Zend test index page so I know everything's working.

I've created the DB in phpMyAdmin but I can't import the DB from my server.
The file limit is set too low at (Max: 2,048KiB)

How do I increase that/remove the restriction?

Your port 80 doesn't work because most likely you have another server running on that port.
Did you configure zend server to work with IIS or Apache?

 

[Paul B]

Your port 80 doesn't work because most likely you have another server running on that port.
Did you configure zend server to work with IIS or Apache?

Not sure what it could be as it's a vanilla Win 7 install.
No idea on the IIS or Apache, this is what I did:

o Select Custom install

§ Check phpMyAdmin and MySQL Server​

o Set Web Server Port to 81
o Zend Server Interface Port to 10081
o Allow Access through firewall
o Create password

Edit: Could it be FileZilla using port 80?

 

[Blandt]

Not sure what it could be as it's a vanilla Win 7 install.
No idea on the IIS or Apache, this is what I did:

o Select Custom install

§ Check phpMyAdmin and MySQL Server​

o Set Web Server Port to 81
o Zend Server Interface Port to 10081
o Allow Access through firewall
o Create password

Edit: Could it be FileZilla using port 80?

Nope. usually port 80 is reserved for http. filezilla uses port 21-22.
During the install of zend server. The first form will ask you if you want to use IIS or install Apache.

 

[Paul B]

Interesting, I wonder what's using port 80 then?

I think I clicked on Apache.

 

[nestor718]

Thanks guys, literally just worked it out and came here to update the thread.

I edited C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\ZendServer\etc\php.ini:

• ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
  • upload_max_filesize = 50M
• ; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
  • post_max_size = 50M

Something else to remember when you go to production and want to allow big file size uploads is the 'max_execution_time' value. The default is 30 seconds and users on slow connections might exceed that when uploading large files and then get a fatal error.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks nestor, this is purely a local install so that shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Blandt]

Interesting, I wonder what's using port 80 then?

I think I clicked on Apache.

IIS is using port 80.

Go to control Panel ---> Programs ---> turn on and off windows features and untick Internet Information services