[rt-users] does RT port to NT/win2k?

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Tue May 14 18:49:07 EDT 2002


Sam,
	You should probably bring this up on rt-devel. That's the "right"
place to discussserious hacking on RT. Work is ongoing
to make the next major release of RT work out of the box on NT. RT 2.1.9
will include a FastCGI handler which runs as a windows service and works
with IIS. 

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:35:45PM -0700, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> 
> I have started the process of installing RT on a win2K box in the cygwin
> environment. Are there MAJOR hacks required to get it running under win2k? 
> 
> I am pretty close to getting the web server properly compiled as well as the
> mysql implementation, but have some sneaking suspicions that there may be
> issues with getting the mail notification pieces together. I'm wondering
> whether there will be any issues working with Exchange. 
> 
> One additional thing I am working on is a more friendly install process for
> meeting all the perl mod reqs etc. Maybe its fantasy but I would like to be
> able to dump a tarball into the cygwin env and run minimal commands to get
> things up and running. Overall the goal is to get the RT tool installed and
> usable by our NT admins so that we can establish a unified
> documentation/ticket tracking effort running in either UNIX/mixed or pure-M$
> environments.
> 
> Any info on the viability of this effort would be greatly appreciated.
> Likewise in my efforts I find something unique or useful, I will be sure to
> share it back to the group. 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Samuel
> 
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