Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Most of you, WordPress users probably use Linux as web page hosting system for your WordPress engines. Because it is free to setup Linux with sql base and put there WordPress i think most ‘normal’ bloggers use this kind of configuration. It is not bad but in some life situations we need to go more Microsoft way.

There are plenty of situation where we need to setup WordPress on Windows platform. For my websites i use Debian VPS system but at ‘daily’ work we use Microsoft systems. So if i need WP for company use i need to configure Windows Server for it.

Microsoft release some GUI installer that make your (windows admin) life easier.

The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI) provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s simple user interface, you can select specific components or install the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer.

One thing that i don’t like is short list of supported systems: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 (no Windows 2003).

Now, in simple words installer come with: IIS7 (ASP.NET apps), SQL Express 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1.

Remember that installer is still in Beta version, also you must know that it will reboot your OS while installing.

Personally i think Web Platform Installer can be useful even for me. Recently i’ve installed some Hyper-V server on Windows 2008 and now i can create there virtual machine and put Web Platform Installer to finished job for me. It will be fast and then i can test some software there: DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti CMS, osCommerce, phpBB and finally WordPress.

Hope this post will be helpful for someone even if you are open source fan. Maybe if i find some time today or tomorrow i try to create video tutorial showing how to install WordPress using Microsoft Web Platform Installer, like i wrote i got there some Hyper-V machine where i can test it.

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9 Responses to “Microsoft Web Platform Installer”

1 mayooresan Oct 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am

for testing purpose I use IIS as my server but with windows 2.6 all permalink structure gone wrong and I’ve gone mad.

Later I’ve installed apache, MYSQL, PHP on my local machine and working on it. Feels I have more control over the machine now. Rather than running on LAMP or WAMP itz a good idea to set-up Apache
2 Peter Oct 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am

Sometimes in company there is a situation that you need to use Windows, company pay for it and now want to use it… or case similar to that.

I need to fix Hyper-V and then i will test this on Windows.
3 SEO Dec 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Very interesting.

Happy 2009.
4 Rafal Jan 28th, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Actually Microsoft Web Platform supports even Windows XP and 2003…
http://www.microsoft.com/web/c.....aller.aspx

best regards
Rafal
5 Meeting rooms london Feb 4th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Great windows installer and most company’s that switch from platforms will definitely love this. Thanks
6 SEO Expert Karachi May 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Yes very beautiful windows, thanks
7 seo lahore Jul 13th, 2011 at 3:08 pm

Wow. Great list! I have used a lot of them before, but it is nice to have them all in one place. I really should go .
8 How To Blogging Aug 17th, 2011 at 4:54 pm

I have tried to follow this tutorial with no success. Your first example code is html but your downloaded code does not include an html document. I tried to take the downloaded code and run it on my web server and it does not present the pages. You get the enter you name box but nothing happens when you do. Also you see some of the code. I guess my question would be is the download code suppose to work.