{"id":223,"date":"2014-11-03T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-11-03T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:31:13","slug":"installing-wordpress-on-windows-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/installing-wordpress-on-windows-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing WordPress on Windows Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-224 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"wpi1\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi1.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WPI makes installing WordPress easy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amongst other web applications, WordPress is the most popular and it makes the install on Windows as simple as a few clicks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-225 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"wpi2\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpi2.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All done!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve tried it on Server 2003 R2 and Server 2012 R2, both with instant success.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/web\/downloads\/platform.aspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/web\/downloads\/platform.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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. Amongst other web applications, WordPress is the most popular and it makes the install on Windows as simple as a few clicks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/installing-wordpress-on-windows-server\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Installing WordPress on Windows Server&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[27,40,73,88,92],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-servers","category-websites","tag-easy","tag-install","tag-simple","tag-windows","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-batchelor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}