Title: IIS problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# IIS problems

 *  [batate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batate/)
 * (@batate)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iis-problems/)
 * Can anyone shed any light on this or help?
 * I am Systems Manager at a small primary school – am using an old Windows 2003
   server with IIS 6 to run a streaming media server, a wiki server (MediaWiki –
   also uses MySQL and PHP) and now hopefully WordPress. The PHP and SQL database
   are set up as well as I know how (I am a rank beginner) WordPress 2.3 installs
   but it runs so badly as to be unusable.
 * Pages take 20 seconds or so to load, the themes only ‘skin’ the index.php page
   that appears before the user logs in (including the ‘admin’ user) otherwise the
   default theme persists, if you try to enable the caching plugins, the Options
   page for the plug-in is blank. I have completely removed the database, uninstalled
   and re-installed several times, each time with the same result. I am assuming
   there is a problem with filepaths somewhere but I don’t know where to start!
 * As the other websites are already running under IIS, WordPress is in its own 
   folder not wwwroot. I would like to get this to run smoothly a) without destroying
   the other sites on the IIS server and b) without having to resort to a hosted
   install but to keep a safe blogging environment for the kids to make errors that
   are kept within the school intranet.
 * TIA for any assistance!

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 * [IIS 6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iis-6/)
 * [themes not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes-not-working/)

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