05-24 Measurement Graphs

Today I spent many hours making graphs and charts of measurements. They are to be found in the documentation section of this blog.

Problem

I also dedicated some time to testing the system for bugs and noticed that the predis driver encounters an exception after 2 minutes of gateway uptime. The other redis driver for php is called phpredis and is supposed to be better than predis for applications that make heavy use of redis. The question is now how to install it on Windows.

Solutions

Use XAMPP with the phpredis dll

There is a PECL package for phpredis that I can use for Windows. The installation directions that phpredis suggests for windows seem really weird though. It wants me to install php from source using the Visual Studio compiler. I am pretty sure this is overkill, since PECL provides a precompiled DLL that I can probably just place in the XAMPP driver folder and update the php.ini.

Migrate Apache, PHP, MariaDB and PhpMyAdmin to WSL

The other option I have is just to ditch XAMPP and use Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux. I already use it to run the redis server. I dont think it will take too long to set things up, since I already did it many times for previous servers. The only problem I see with this is that the ubuntu version is not daemonized. Services (Apache2, MariaDB) do not start when WSL or Windows is booted. This is annoying, but there seem to be some workarounds, like creating bash scripts.