In this screencasts, we will demonstrate the installation of WordPress on x32 version of Windows Server 2008.

We follow a similar step-by-step fashion to the one demonstrated in How to Install MySQL, PHP using FastCGI, and Joomla on IIS7.
The recommended approach when installing PHP on IIS7 is using FastCGI, which combines stability and the improved CGI performance.

The following packages are necessary for this installation:
● MySQL 5.1 Community Server – Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE (x86)
● PHP 5.2 Non-thread-safe zip package. You can squeeze some additional performance using the NTS PHP package.
● WordPress 2.5 package

Step 1 We start by installing the Web Server role on Windows Server 2008.

Step 2 In step2, we install and configure MySQL on our server.

Step 3 Configuring PHP 5 on IIS7 is one of the key steps, before we install WordPress on IIS7. We also check the result of installing both, MySQL and PHP, on our Windows Server 2008.

Step 4 We create a Database in MySQL for our WordPress installation. Then, we grant the necessary permissions to it. Finally, we install, configure, and test WordPress on the server.