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Moodle on Windows

There are constantly ongoing discussions on the Moodle forums about getting Moodle performing on a MS setup. Summarising, you should LAMP, if somehow possible. However, with Moodle getting more popular among common users, not used to Linux AND among companies, dictating specific hosting environment requirements, more and more requests are coming to get Moodle to perform on some kind of MS setup.

The preferred setups would be (in order of preference) :

• LAMP: Linux - Apache - postgreSQL / mySQL - PHP
• WAMP: Windows – Apache - postgreSQL / mySQL - PHP
• WASP: Windows – Apache - SQLServer - PHP
• WISP: Windows – IIS - SQLServer - PHP

Some useful links for Moodle on Windows:

• Apachelounge: Apache2 on Windows
• eAccelerator on Windows: Windows binaries of eAccelerator