Easy – James Batchelor https://james-batchelor.com Useful I.T & VoIP Ramblings Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:31:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://james-batchelor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-cropped-logo-jb-202505-32x32.png Easy – James Batchelor https://james-batchelor.com 32 32 Installing WordPress on Windows Server https://james-batchelor.com/index.php/2014/11/03/installing-wordpress-on-windows-server/ https://james-batchelor.com/index.php/2014/11/03/installing-wordpress-on-windows-server/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:31:13 +0000 http://james-batchelor.com/?p=223 Continue reading "Installing WordPress on Windows Server"]]> It’s simple, instead of the process of installing PHP, MySQL, assigning permissions and all the debugging that many of us have gone through, Microsoft has come up with WPI, or Web Platform Installer.

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WPI makes installing WordPress easy.

Amongst other web applications, WordPress is the most popular and it makes the install on Windows as simple as a few clicks.

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All done!

So far I’ve tried it on Server 2003 R2 and Server 2012 R2, both with instant success.

It’s available at: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

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