Installing WP in a Windows Environment

  • sbishop33

    (@sbishop33)


    21 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,
    I’m new to WordPress and web development. I would like to install WordPress on my home computer underneath the root folder for a personal website that I am designing. I have been reading posts about potential problems during the installation, but there are very few about installing in a Windows environment.
    I am running Win XP Pro with MySql 4.0.20a, and PHP 4.3.9. My web server is MS IIS 5.1.
    My specific questions are what folder structure should I create under c:\intepub\www for the website and WordPress? What other gotcha’s might I encounter installing WP in a Windows environment? What exactly is mod_rewrite? Will it be required in a Windows installation?
    Thanks in advance for your help.

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  • Anonymous

    21 years, 3 months ago

    Only to your last question:
    mod_rewrite is not available on win servers, it’s an apache “thing” 🙂 – It’s optional even there, only for those that want to change the default permalink structure. So, basically you don’t need it, but it comes handy if you are playing around with the permalink. (I have seen here in the forum a solution for that even on windows servers, but I do not remember where. If I find it, I will post back.)

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    21 years, 3 months ago

    For the first, just extract the (WordPress) zip file into your root folder (usually C:\Inetpub\wwwroot; you list it as C:\Inetpub\www). No special handling required. Beyond the issue mentioned by Anon above, I’ve had no problems running WP on my systems.

    Thread Starter sbishop33

    (@sbishop33)

    21 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks to both of you for your replies. I did indeed truncate ‘wwwroot’ to ‘www’.
    Actually, I want to create a folder beneath the root for my site, and the the WordPress folder a level beneath that (i.e., ‘C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\WordPress’).
    Thanks again for your help.

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