Title: No MySQL?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# No MySQL?

 *  [kevin_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_76/)
 * (@kevin_76)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/)
 * My host has informed me that they do not support MySQL. As a rookie, what does
   that mean? Is there another way to install WP?

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 *  [benzin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benzin/)
 * (@benzin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440541)
 * no .. change host.
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_76/)
 * (@kevin_76)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440542)
 * Can’t change hosts. Hate to ask this, but is there another blog that will work
   without MySQL?
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_76/)
 * (@kevin_76)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440546)
 * Talked to the host.
 * They are running Microsoft IIS 6, and they support SQL server 2000, but not MySQL.
 * I’m new at this, so I’m not sure if this helps my cause, or not.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440557)
 * Alas, nope. No mysql or php, no WordPress. No way around that!
 * You might want to google for blogs that run with ASP or ASP.net.
 *  [manstraw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manstraw/)
 * (@manstraw)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440575)
 * you really can’t change hosts?
 * are you in a position to somehow run your own webserver? perhaps [http://apachefriends.org](http://apachefriends.org)
   can work for you. if I knew why you couldn’t change hosts, perhaps I’d have a
   more suitable suggestion.
 *  Thread Starter [kevin_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevin_76/)
 * (@kevin_76)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440972)
 * So, if they install MySQL, they need to install php, too? MySQL doesn’t fix the
   problem?
 * I can’t change because it’s not my site – they just hired me to get some things
   set up on it.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440973)
 * wordpress requires php and mysql.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress)
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-440974)
 * [http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/](http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/)
 *  [newvista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newvista/)
 * (@newvista)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-441029)
 * I don’t understand why WordPress doesn’t work on sql 2000? It’s the same thing.
   Now i have to instal MySql to make it work?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [newvista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newvista/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-mysql-1/#post-441029)
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