I’ve been running more PHP and Mysql apps on windows IIS servers lately… I hope this is not the result of some disorder ;p
Wanted to try out Prosper202 Click tracking software. Downloaded the latest, version 1.9.29 as of writing.
First issue encountered – the app highly recommends installing memcache for performance. I did some checking and memcache on windows looks like it hasn’t been done in a while… the couple binaries I found that might work are pretty outdated or were just broken links. Decided to skip this for now and revisit later (maybe).
Second issue was a bit trickier- the app loaded and installed the database, but one I logged in, some things were obviosuly not working correctly. I noticed that many of the ajax widgets on the page just kept showing spinners, never loading. I looked at the source on the page and all the realtive links in the page were prepended with “\” instead of “/” – an obvious goof related to how the windows os uses backslashes instead of forward slashes like linux os’es use.
I traced this down to a function, in the \202config\functions.php file- Update your get_absolute_url() function with this code:
function get_absolute_url() {
$tmp = substr(substr(dirname( __FILE__ ), 0,-10),strlen(realpath($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’])));
$tmp = str_replace(‘\\’, ‘/’, $tmp);
return $tmp;
}
The first line is pretty much what the original used, but then we add a replace for any backslashes to make them into a fwd slash. I haven’t checked further if maybe we could slice off the first char every time and replace it instead, but this broad replace function seems to work so far.
The software seems to work now, but will proceed next to actually try it – and see if any other problems or performance issues arise.