The fastest and easiest way to install PHP on IIS is using Microsoft’s Web Platform installer. It completely automates setting up IIS, FastCGI and the latest version of PHP from the php.net site. To install it, just click this button:
Also included in the installer are ready packaged popular web applications currently including:
Drupal, DotNetNuke, Photo Gallery, Wiki, SilverStripe CMS, Umbraco and WordPress.
Now we just need Microsoft to add MySQL and we’re sorted!
On your Server machine, at a command prompt, type the following
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
If you want to turn it off again later, type the following
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
Since 2020Media already offers hosting for WordPress, we thought we ought to start using it ourselves.
We’ve tried most of the popular blogging tools currently available, and our preferred option was WordPress. Although we pride ourselves on our technical knowledge, we were also looking for something that was really easy to use.