WordPress in IIS7

Slickhouse.com has been running on a dedicated Windows Server (2003) with Internet Information Services (IIS6) for nearly 6 months now - without any issues.

The initial setup proved to be a big headache, as PHP wouldn't play ball with my network setup. But after many hours of trying, I finally cracked it and migrated all of my Linux (shared) hosted sites to my very own server(s).

With the arrival of Server 2008, Microsoft has introduced IIS7 - which proves to be feature rich and secure. In most cases, I'd stand by the philosophy:

If it isn't broke, don't fix it
But in this instance, upgrading to IIS7 would be beneficial, no only for the aformentioned improved security, but also (hopefully) a performance gain.

Microsoft has greatly improved its online resources over the recent years, with IIS gaining its own site. There are plenty of tutorials, including the following:

Follow the first and you'll successfully end up with a working PHP platform, on top of which you can install WordPress. In my case, MySQL is on a separate dedicated server - but it would also work locally.

The second article is vital for the permalinks that WordPress uses. A default install uses a crude URL with QueryString parameters (i.e. /index.php?post=123), but permalinks enable friendly URLs such as /2009-04-24/wordpress-in-iis7/

There's not much else needed and from my initial testing, Server 2008 and IIS 7 play ball very well with PHP/WordPress. I'll soon be moving all of the sites on my IIS 6 webserver across, allowing me to take advantage of the new platform. I'll keep you updated!

Posted: Friday 24th April 2009, 10:43pm
Categories: Computers and Technology, Slickhouse, Web
Tags: iis, php, server-2008, wordpress
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There are 3 comments:

adamskii said:

is mysql going to be discontinued, i remember reading that their competitor bought them so it was likely they would either discontinue or swallow it?

12/05/2009 17:25:03 | Permalink

Matt said:

SUN purchased MySQL a while ago and SUN themselves has now been acquired by Oracle. Both MySQL and Oracle offer popular relational databases, but I wouldn't think it'll be the end of MySQL. From what I've read, there are several forks of it anyway, including the Enterprise versions - so it won't be disappearing any time soon. It might just make those already using it consider an alternative.

12/05/2009 19:54:59 | Permalink

Matt said:

It looks like they've been listening - the founder of MySQL has created an alliance to unite all of the forks of MySQL and to provide a solid development area.

14/05/2009 20:27:21 | Permalink

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