I run several wordpress sites on a Windows 2008 R2 IIS7.
So here’s some initial information and if you let me know where you need the detail, I will start posting the detail to a pastebin because I think it is too much to post here.
I assume you want to setup a development environment. I use sub domains (e.g. dev.domainname.com). Whoever is in control of the domain will have to create the subdomain for you…if that isn’t you. Then you add the site in IIS using the IIS Manager. I can tell you step by step how to do this if you need this info.
On MySQL…I see 5.6 is installed. Did you create the database ? Do you need to know how to do this?
I had trouble getting PHP installed correctly. I finally used the Windows Installer for PHP 5.3 and I just installed all of the extensions. Once you have it installed and working it is very easy to upgrade to PHP 5.4.nn or PHP 5.5.nn. There is no Windows installer for later versions of PHP. I will be happy to post more details about this step.
You may have to tweak the php.ini file. I will be happy to post my versions via pastebin (or something). To much to post here.
At this point, you should test that the site is working in IIS, PHP is working and MySQL is working before trying to install WordPress. It will save you a lot of time.
Use a simple index.html…a “hello world” type of thing to test that the development website is in operation (after setting it up in IIS).
Then test that PHP is working by creating a phptest.php file that just contains the following line of code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Then when you visit this URL http://dev.domainname.com/phptest.php you should see the PHP info page. If you don’t, it isn’t working.
Finally, test that you can connect to your database. Put the following code in a php file (e.g. testsql.php) and update it with the connection details for your database. Then visit the URL http://dev.domainname.com/testsql.php. The output will tell you if you’ve successfully connected to the database.
<?php
echo "okey dokey <br>";
// hostname or ip of server (for local testing, localhost should work)
$dbServer='localhost';
echo "okey dokey <br>";
// username and password to log onto db server
$dbUser='mysqlusernamegoeshere';
$dbPass='passwordgoeshere'; //
echo "okey dokey again <br>";
// name of database
$dbName='databasenamegoeshere';
$link = mysql_connect("$dbServer", "$dbUser", "$dbPass") or die("Could not connect");
print "Connected successfully<br>";
mysql_select_db("$dbName") or die("Could not select database");
print "Database selected successfully<br>";
// close connection
mysql_close($link);
?>
Once you’ve got those three elements working you are ready to do the 5 minute WordPress install and it really is only 5 minutes! Okay. Maybe 15 by the time you update your wp-config.php file.
Let me know where you are stuck or what further detail you need.
