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Midosm,

You’ve likely already solved your problem, but for the record, although we were ultimately able to run the application with relative success on the Windows 2003 server, it was never an absolutely smooth and reliable server for WordPress. All upgrades of the WordPress application were infinitely problematic. We finally helped our client move the site to a Linux server and everything has been running very smoothly since.

In short, while it is certainly possible to run the application on a Windows server, our experience is that such hosting often comes with problems.

Yes, I forwarded this exact link to the system administrator (along with several others, equally detailed), but the installation still failed.

Hi Bruce,

I’m glad to hear that you’re running it on Windows 2003.

I was having all kinds of issues in the back-end. When I signed into WP, I would be taken to a blank php page. I was only able to sign in properly when I added a forward slash to the admin url (e.g., instead of “http://sitename.com/wp-admin”, I had to write “http://sitename.com/wp-admin/”). Once I had accessed the dashboard, any time I tried to make a change (e.g. change the admin email address in settings, turn on/off a plugin), I’d again be taken to a blank php page and would have to type “http://sitename.com/wp-admin/” into the url to re-access the dashboard (though the change I’d made would stick). I deactivated all the plugins that the previous developer had installed, uninstalled the added template, but was getting exactly the same results. Then I did some research and came across several articles that had suggested an incompatibility between Windows 2003 and WP using PHP 5, MySQL 5.

Since we can’t find MySQL 4 anyway, I’ll ask my server guy to try the fresh install and will send him the information that you’d posted. I’ll let you know how that goes.