I don’t like blogging about technical stuff on this blog and even less about PHP and MySQL after all, if you have read my other blog www.theaspnetguy.com you would know that I am a Microsoft developer, enough said.
Even though, I run 90% on my personal sites on WordPress, why? Well because it’s dead easy, create a database then a folder point your DNS and voila. Most Linux host make it even easier with an install option but I like getting my hands dirty.
One thing I used to do was to have a virtual machine with Windows Server installed and configured PHP and MySQL so I could try stuff. And that bring me to my first issue, I search for a step by step installation for hours some years back and eventually found one that made sense… Go to http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/installing-wordpress-on-iis7/2008-10-06/ it may not be resent but I have never failed an installation thanks to them.
Now onto my Godaddy problem, installing WordPress on Godaddy is easy enough but customising the permalinks was impossible since Godaddy’s Windows hosting did not support it, until now. So, why talk about TrainSignalTraining? Because they have an excellent post on “IIS7: URL Rewrite Extension on Windows Server 2008” which led me to a post called Enabling Pretty Permalinks in WordPress and voila…
So does it work?
I started writing this article before I tried, so imagine my surprise when this happened:
It says: Permalink structure updated. Remove write access on web.config file now!
And it works!
This brings me to my last statement of today, I am working on a new version of Only in South Africa .com. I will publish it’s location in the near future.
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