Yesterday Matt Mullenweg, founder and original developer of WordPress, posted a great link to a new installation program from Microsoft, called Web Application Installer, that will allow someone to install WordPress on a Windows machine using IIS. However, this isn’t a straight forward solution.

First, manual installation instructions for WordPress on IIS can be found here.

Second, if you don’t have the supporting applications required to run WordPress, namely PHP and MySQL, you will be asked to install them first. Installing these two applications isn’t necessarily hard, but I would have liked to see them included in the installer provided by Microsoft.

Once I had the supporting applications running, the install worked fairly well. I know Microsoft can’t look at this as becoming a major supporter of Open Source , because its a long way from that. But it is a good first step. I’ll try and get a full installation review up later.

Tags: Microsoft, WordPress