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1. Farrell Jones
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am running IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. I have PHP 5.2.6 running with the SQLSRV 1.0 driver for PHP. My SQLServer database is on another machine than my web site. I continue to get the error message of “Error establishing a database connection”. The database is running, and the password is correct. I have successfully connected to the database using ODBC connections.

   What else do I need to check/do?
   -Farrell

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   you need a MySQL database
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress

3. Farrell Jones
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Not according to
   http://wordpress.visitmix.com/development/installing-wordpress-on-sql-server

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That would be an unsupported install BUT I noticed those directions say you need IIS7 and you've tagged this post as IIS6.

5. Farrell Jones
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have seen other links mentioning IIS6

6. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   wordpress "sql server" iis6

7. Farrell Jones
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have been looking through those links but had not found anything that would solve my problem. I was hoping someone on this blog maybe had some experience with IIS6 and SQLServer 2005.

8. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Alas, we're mostly *nix/Apache and MySQL. I tagged this generic IIS and hopefully someone who's clever that way will see this :(

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