
Install WordPress on a Windows Server with IIS to take advantage of this popular open-source content management system (CMS). WordPress makes website development easy and extensible with its free tools, plugins, and themes, all accessible through a single backend dashboard. To run efficiently on a Windows Server with IIS, WordPress requires an active database, a web server, and a dynamic script processor (PHP).
In this article, you install WordPress on a Windows server running the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.
Visit your Server IP address or registered domain name to set up WordPress.
Select your installation language, then enter your WordPress site title, administrator username, a strong password, and email address to complete the setup.
Create a new Web.config file in your WordPress files directory, commonly C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
Open the file with Notepad, and paste the following rewrite rules to handle permalinks correctly:
Save and close the file.
Log in to your WordPress website.
Test common CMS functions by installing plugins and themes, then create and view blog posts to test your permalink settings.
You have successfully installed WordPress on a Windows server with IIS. You can update your CMS and perform several WordPress functions on the server. For example, to assign your WordPress website to a domain name linked to the server, edit site bindings in Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to add your domain.
For more information on setting up your Windows Server instance, refer to the following articles:
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