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by fbm 4399 days ago
We also sell a self hosted PHP/MySQL app. Here's what we've found so far:

- Other OS: Windows, OSX at least.

- Prepackaged environments: WAMP, XAMPP, MAMP.

- PHP Modules that are not normally installed and that your app is using.

- How PHP works with Apache: mod_php, filters, CGI/FastCGI.

- NGINX.

- PHP interface with MySQL (mysql, mysqli). We only support mysqli but it's not always installed. Other times no support for MySQL is installed.

- Other databases if you allow them.

- You're probably not developing with the latest versions of PHP/MySQL, so check also incompatibilities with newer versions.

- Sessions / Cookies.

- Time settings can give problems also: different timezone between the server and PHP.

These are the ones I could think of right now. Installation is, by far, what's going to cause you the majority of support issues.

You app seems interesting, do you have anything to show?

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Fantastic! Thanks very much. That'll keep our tester busy for a while!

We don't have anything much to show right now, but we hopefully will do soon.