Help with installing on IIS 6

  • radar101

    (@radar101)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    I am kind of new to this and I had access to a linux server with mysql on it at one point. Now that thats gone I wanted to intall wordpress on my windows server running iis6. I dont have mysql but i do have microsoft sql 2000. Is it possible to run wordpress on sql 2000, or am I just a total idiot in thinking this. ?Also PHP, I dont think this would be an issue? Anyone with good knowledge of this would be helpful to me.
    Thanx.

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  • rustindy

    (@rustindy)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Well, for the moment, you do kind of have to have MySQL installed in order for WordPress to work. PHP will also need to be installed for IIS.

    Once those are setup, the only problem running WP on IIS is the lack of “pretty” URLs because IIS does not have mod_rewrite functionality built into it.

    jaseone

    (@jaseone)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Save yourself a lot of trouble and just download & install WAMP.

    rustindy

    (@rustindy)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Yup, go with that. Unless there is a reason you can’t run Apache on that server (for example, if require the IIS server as well and have only 1 public IP address), definitely install Apache and MySQL and PHP. The most recent versions work fine (yes, I’ve had no trouble with Apache 2, MySQL 5 beta, and PHP 5 on a Windows 2003 server – WordPress work fine).

    WAMP is a good idea too, it’s far easier to get running that downloading and installing each piece seperately.

    Thread Starter radar101

    (@radar101)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Thanx yall. So I could just add an additional IP to my server and continue to run my IIS web site along with an apache site running wordpress by installing WAMP?

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