WordPress and ASP

WordPress requires PHP 4.1 or newer and MySQL 3.23.23 or newer. It also is recommended to use Apache because it is more robust than IIS (but I have heard of instances where WP works with IIS). If you have the proper versions of PHP and MySQL you should be fine. Otherwise you are “screwed and have to find a fifth rated Journal/News system”.

WordPress doesn’t use ASP at all. You can install PHP in a Windows server without trouble though – just go to https://www.php.net, download the latest version (4 or 5, doesn’t matter – WP works with both) and install it into IIS (use the manual installation steps, you’ll end up with a much better system that way). Then boogey over to https://www.mysql.com and download MySQL 4.1 and install it. Make sure PHP is set to support MySQL (read the PHP installation text file to find out how to turn it on – PHP4 is done automatically, but PHP5 requires a quick change to the php.ini file) and go for broke ??

In short, WP can live very happily on a Windows server. It ignores ASP completely.

On top of that, if your server has more than one IP address or you don’t need IIS (and by extension ASP) for anything, then remove IIS and install Apache (https://www.apache.org) instead. It really is a better web server.

crap! Sorry i though i posted the info about the server.

I have php and mysql installed and running on this server. As a matter of fact WordPress is installed and running on the server, I am just having the hardest freakin time trying to get my posts to show up on a my index page, which is an asp page. Hence my problem….at least i know they can walk hand in hand, but intergration oh the joys like getting stabbed iwth a red hot iron in the eye……..

There is something odd going on here. Wp and its index php should not be sharing a directory with anything else like index.asp.

no no. I am wanting the Index.asp to contain all my info from when i blog/post news on my site. That is where i am having problems. right now they are seperate things and i wnat them together.

Ahhh kay, gotcha. https://www.innereyes.com/ is an ASP page that just pulls blog information straight from the MySQL databases. You’ll need to go to the MySQL site and download MyODBC 3.51 and install it if you want to access the MySQL database(s) directly from ASP.

Your other option would be to grab the RSS feed from the blog using ASP and parse it into useful variables or arrays for display on your ASP page. The problem with that is speed, however. It’s a lot slower than simply selecting data from the databases directly.

Ah ok, well i believe I can do the MyODBC way as i have never touched RSS before so that is a new one for me…. but it will be harder and wont look as nice as the way i am wanting it to though. Thanks for the info though it gives me some path in whcih to look, i think lol