Installing on IIS

  • I want to install WordPress on my own Windows Server 2003 system that hosts an IIS server that’s already hosting another blog (which I’m replacing) as well as several websites.
    Question: is this possible? I saw in the installation doc that IIS had to be stopped. Is this just during installation or does it imply that I can’t run WordPress and other IIS-hosted ASP, HTML and other content?

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  • Not sure what installation doc you’re looking at. If it was related to hosting with apache/php/mysql on windows at the normal port 80, yes – IIS has to be stopped.

    However, if you install PHP/mysql on your windows server and configure IIS to use PHP, then of course you wouldn’t stop your web server.

    Thread Starter billva

    (@billva)

    I have MoveableType installed already and it requires Perl and MySQL (which are already running). Is this what you mean by PHP?

    I’m not having a lot of luck with MT… each time I try to make a change, the entries get all confused if they show up at all. I understand that I can import my blog entries from MT into WordPress.

    PHP = https://php.net/ you’ll need that for WordPress. It is , essentially, the opensource answer to ASP. You can run both on a windows server but it takes a bit of doing (that is beyond the scope of wordpress support). Fortunately, there are many other support forums for PHP that should be able to help (and google!).

    Assuming you get php working with IIS and mysql, yes — WP does have a MT importer.

    I use wamp5 on my XP Pro & 2K Pro boxes and it runs fine

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