Installing Wordpress on IIS7
As you undoubtedly know by now, Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn is the first Microsoft server operating system to deliver native support for PHP hosting out of the box. Why is this a big deal? Well, web developers, and especially PHP developers already have the answer to this question, but I will still indulge myself, for the rest of the readers. It all comes down to LAMP vs. WISP. Bear with me, I will explain in second, and I promise to make the best of it. Both acronyms refer to infrastructures made up of an operating system, a web server and a database management system.
Right, that’s just three out of four. And in this sense, the P stands for the PHP scripting language. Essentially, LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, while WISP is Windows, IIS, SQL and PHP. Now with Windows Server 2003, IIS has already been gaining consistent ground on Apache, according to data made available by Netcraft. (more…)
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Written by Jason on November 23rd, 2007 with
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