Hi David
We are looking at and have been advised to move our sites currently on dedicated linux servers over to windows based servers to accommodate some other features on our sites. Please could you advise whether or not we will be able to stll run the script, cron jobs and automation scripts on a windows server. Have any other users experienced any problems or have needed to adjust anything?
Many thanks
Chris
Thanks David
The links were very useful, we have numerous versions of your script running smoothly, moving is always a pain and your advice was reassuring.
Chris
Hi Chris,
The script works fine on Windows based servers, in fact I know of quite a few Price Tapestry users running some pretty large Windows based sites.
However, with regards to automation; the instructions in the automation guide are very much geared towards the Linux environment and it is unlikely that an automation mechanism that you have setup on a Linux server is going to work.
That is not to say you can't automate the process under Windows - of course you can, but not quite in the same way. There is a process scheduler which can be be used to fire off batch jobs at specific times, and you can also get a version of wget for Windows, which should get you most of the way there....
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
In summary, I think you need to look at creating a batch script (just a text file containing commands), which can use the Win32 version of wget (see above), and set this up to run via the Task Scheduler. I found the link below referring to Windows 2000 server, but i'm sure there will be equivalent features in later versions...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb742545.aspx
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.