UPDATE: This document is no longer relevant please see WordPress and PHP on Windows Server 2008
We have tried a few DotNet blogs and were not completely happy so we have decided to go with WordPress. I will note that Subtext has potential and those of you like us that build sites based on DotNet and MS SQL might want to give that a try if WIMP is not an option. [Download Subtext DotNet Blog]
Another option is to build your own DotNet Blog application from scratch. We started that project but it’s always on the shelf while we keep up with our current customer requests and new design projects. So that leaves us with the option of WordPress on Windows.
Pros: It’s a full featured application with plenty of support articles. It can validate as strict XHTML with the right theme or some minor tweaking. If you want to roll your own using DotNet you have a long way to go just to get 75% of the features that you get in WordPress. It looks, functions, and feels like a commercial application. It’s not difficult to install and performance is quite good using FastCGI on IIS.
Cons: If you are a DotNet website developer then you probably don’t have PHP and MySQL installed on your servers. You might not be comfortable, from a security perspective, running software you are not familiar with on your servers.
Tips:
- Use FastCGI from Microsoft to increase PHP performance.
- Use this URL rewrite ISAPI filter to remove index.php from WordPress permalinks
Give this a try if you have IIS7 and are looking for a URL rewrite module supported by Microsoft. I have not tried it so let me know what you think if you use it.
Tags: FastCGI, ISAPI, Mod-Rewrite, PHP, WordPress
Thank u for the url rewrite link.
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