HELP PLEASE: Installing WordPress with Webmatrix

I don’t use web matrix so I can’t help there, but you say you clicked the ‘run’ button on the menu ribbon. Looking at the documentation on the link you supplied there is not a run button. Which screen did you actually get to?

As this is a windows product and it runs on IIS not the usual Linux/Apache there may be some issues that are local to your version of .NET. For example do you have access to the IIS manager? If so (it should be in the administartion menu) check that the web site is actually running. If you files have loaded but the actual server isn’t running you will have problems.

We do a lot of .NET development, so the background software isn’t new to us.

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

This is totally new to me. May be the road to install WordPress should be easier with the 5 minute installation.

I do not believe that some program is missing. The Control Panel reflects that 33 programs were installed in the WordPress installation process. Effectively, I have IIS, IIS Express and IIS Third Party. Microsoft.NET was in the list of the 33 programs, but I do not see the administration menu.

Well, I believe that I should follow the procedure for the famous 5-minute installation, if I I have problems, I will delete everything and begin the installation in my computer from zero. I hope to have good news this weekend.

Best regards and happy weekend, I’ll have a lot of work to do.

Besety

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. WordPress is PHP/MySQL based software. If you take the WP zip file, expand it then run it on a server it does install in 5 minutes. It looks to me that WebMatrix is a Windows based peice of sofware that uses the .NET framework to build and run web sites on a local PC that can then be exported to a web server on a remote host. WordPress seems to be included, but if it is running on .NET it should still need PHP. I don’t know of a version that runs on MSSQL SERVER -either lite or full server versions. This would lead me to think that the version included in the webmatrix setup is not a standard WP installation and has been re-coded to fit a windows background. Quite how or why I am not sure.

I will probably be loading webmatrix myself as it looked interesting, and will try the load of WP. I already run MSSQL databases and IIS, but not for wordpress work, to the best of my knowledge the two don’t mix normally!

Well after 3.5 hours and 20GB of space webmatrix installed, wel almost installed anyway. I had an error with the database. I understand what you mean by ‘run’ from the ribbon.

Check the settings are OK, they should be defaults, but mine came up with ‘none’ as the ASP net version.

I had to start my older version of MySQL as webmatrix installed a windows version of PHP and a windows version of Mysql – which didn’t work.

So If you can check (this is from an XP control panel it will be different on 7) your Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

See if the Mysql service has stared as well as the IIS service.

It might be worth from the administartive menu checkking in IIS7 to see if your web site is running.