By mallet on

I am planning on using goddady to host my drupal site. But have been told that it only supports on a linux host because they only offer the Apache server on the linux hosting option. if I use a linux based hosting pack, would this cause any problems with any my modules that I might use?

-Mallet

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behindthepage’s picture

behindthepage commented

Apache is recommended for Drupal
http://drupal.org/requirements

Regards
Geoff

Regards
Geoff

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Drupal runs on both windows and linux. My intranet is windows based. I recommend using apache rather than IIS on windows though. I've only encountered the occasional minor module problem (usually related to files) running drupal on windows. You can use a prepacked wamp stack (i like http://wampserver.com, but lots of drupal users seem to like http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html as well) to try out drupal locally before committing to a host.

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ambientdrup’s picture

ambientdrup commented

It should not cause any issues. Drupal runs beautifully on Linux/Apache. The issues I've experienced have always been with Drupal running on Windows, i.e. trying to get clean URLs running on Windows is complex.

-backdrifting

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Dont you mean IIS? Apache runs just fine on Windows - clean URLs and all. My local dev network is all Windows, running Wampserver stack, same as WorldFallz.

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mallet’s picture

mallet commented

thanks guys for the great info. Much appreciated :)

-Mallet