windows installer + setup horribly slow

Tuesday 01 March 2005 3:26:04 am

i just downloaded and tried the windowsinstallation of ezpublish,
and it takes verrry long, i even get script-timeouts. (> 30 secs)
even the "finetune" function gets timeouts.
i guess there is something either wrong with the setup-routine,
or the whole php-code is written very bad. cant imagine you have a millon
downloads.
is this normal to be very slow.
what is the normal time (on a new computer/server) to install the system
and then to run the new index-page ?

my system
windows-xp pro, Mobile-M 1,4Ghz. 512MB-Ram
this should be fast enough for some "php-scripts".

Addon:
Seems my Antivirus is scanning every php on execution. seems a bad configuration of apache ;( never had problems with xampp before. seems
apache setup could be improved (does it run in cgi-mode ?)

Tuesday 01 March 2005 3:58:59 am

i guess it has much to do with the antivirus, which tests every php-script, and the setuproutine has many of them as it also tests the include-files (when reading/opening files).
i manually excluded the ezpulish directory from scanning and now it has a reasonable speed. but only after hitting the cache. so first page-compiles are a little slow.
perhaps this can be an example if others have problems with very slow speed to check their antivirus behaviour.
on the other hand it displays the complexity of ezpublish and that there are very much (include-)files involved...
i checked my xampp installation and there i had the same problem, but the scripts i used before were fast enough, so i didnt recognize antivirus was slowing them. ezpublish is the first web-application( script) i run, which cause timeouts due to antivirus-scanning.

Friday 06 May 2005 2:33:26 pm

I had the same problem with the windows installer. Using EasyPHP and the .tar.gz download solved this problem for me...
But it still isn't that fast :-[ I wonder what it will be like on a host.
Do you need some kind of custom, high performance hosting? Or should you be able to run eZ on a shared host at a reasonable speed?
If special hosting is needed, then eZ is not what I'm looking for...