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  • Greetings, I have been given a request to setup multiple WordPress sites, hosted internally on our servers. I would have a single domain (blogs.company.com) with the various wordpress sites located within subfolders (blogs.company.com/blog1, blogs.company.com/blog2, etc). I have installed WebMatrix2 / Web Platform Installer for ease of creating the WordPress sites. I am looking for some instructions on the best way to setup my environment. I am able to create the sites with WebMatrix, but each url is http://localhost:portnumber and the files are stored in “myWebs”. Does anyone have a whitepaper or instructions on the proper way to accomplish this request. I am running this on a Windows Server 2008 r2 with IIS7. Thanks!!!

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  • Checkout Microsoft’s site – they have plenty of information on using WebMatrix with WordPress.

    Build a Web Site in Twenty Minutes using WordPress and Webmatrix for example.

    Thread Starter rcallero

    (@rcallero)

    Thanks! I’ll give it a look. I posted here because I had seen references to Network Settings for multiple sites. Also if there was a better way to accomplish the goal, without WebMatrix, I would be open to hearing how.

    That’s a bit of a difficult question to answer as I don’t know the limits of your environment. Obviously, my personal choice would be to run WordPress on a Linux or FreeBSD server, rather than a Windows Box, and if I have to run it on a Windows Box to rather run Apache than IIS7.

    I have a few reasons for this:

    a) Subjectively, I am much more comfortable with WordPress on a Un*x environment, and the tools available on the operating system are more useful to me that Microsoft’s Powershell (but probably because I am not that fluent in Powershell).
    b) I have found that you run into issues with plugins when running PHP as an ISAPI extention in IIS.

    It is really based on your preferences and your environmental constraints.

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