Majority of the developers today employ WAMP i.e. Windows Apache MySQL Php. Although Apache provides a number of advantages over IIS.

Apache is an open source, free to download and easily available.

IIS continues to be attacked by viruses and thus not safe from security point of view. On the other hand security issues in Apache are raised occasionally and that too with limited scope.

The cost associated with Apache is very less as compared to IIS as it’s an open source software and is available for free. And when you talk about IIS, you are talking about Microsoft Windows and buying it as a server platform involves lot of money.

 But many developers are still willing to use Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) in place of Apache :  

Apache is useful if you are a programmer but then if you are a part of a company that’s looking for a Web Server you can’t really rely upon an open source software.

Apache had performance problems (although they were corrected with Apache 2.0).

Lastly, if you are comparing a Microsoft product with an open source software you can be rest assured that there will be countless number of people going for the Microsoft’s Internet Information Services(IIS) as a server platform.

So here’s a method to run PHP with MySQL and IIS 6.0 Manager. 

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